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STEDT #5537

*dzyut

SUCK / KISS / BREAST / MILK
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

Allofams

Chinese comparandum

啐 OC *ts’wəd, GSR #490e ‘taste, drink’; Schuessler 2007:636-7 *tshûts; B & S 2011: *tsʰˁut-s {[tsʰ]ˁu[t]-s}; Mand. cuì.
醉 OC *tsi̯wəd, GSR #490h ‘drink one’s fill; drunk’; Schuessler 2007:636 *tsuts; B & S 2011: *Cə.tsut-s {Cə.[ts]u[t]-s}; Mand. zuì.

Reflexes & cognates8 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmandzyut ‘suck / kiss / breast / milk’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 589

4Nungic3

Trung [Dulong] (Dulonghe)tsut⁵⁵ ‘suckle (milk)’Sun H 82 Dul
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)tɕʰŭʔ⁵⁵ ‘breast’Sun H 82 Dul
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)tɕʰŭʔ⁵⁵ ‘milk’Sun H 82 Dul

6.1.1Burmish5

Burmese (Written)cut ‘suck, absorb, imbibe’Matisoff 87 BP
Burmese (Written)cut ‘suck, imbibe, absorb’Benedict 76 WBur

6.1.2Loloish1

*LoloishC-cutᴸ ‘suck’Bradley 79 PLo: 633

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5537, *dzyut ‘SUCK / KISS / BREAST / MILK’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5537
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 382
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5537,
  title  = {{*dzyut 'SUCK / KISS / BREAST / MILK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5537},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5537}
}