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STEDT #5544

*s-ya

SWIDDEN

Intermediate reconstructions

Lolo-Burmese*hya¹ ‘SWIDDEN / FIELD (MOUNTAIN)’

Notes

Many Southeast Asian languages distinguish between “(non-irrigated) upland field, swidden” and “(irrigated) lowland paddy field”, e.g. Lahu hɛ ‘swidden’ vs. ti-mi ‘paddy field’.

Reflexes & cognates41 reflexes · 13 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanhya ‘swidden / field (mountain)’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 594

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Daaijah n‘mountain field’So-Hartmann 2001 Daa: 146

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Kokborokhoʔ ‘swidden, field’Tripuri 88

1.7.3.1Jingpho2

Jingphoyi ‘field’Marrison 67 Naga

Jingphoyíʔ n‘dry field’Dai 83 Jing: 893

2.3.2Southern Kiranti1

Kulungyi ‘field’Rai 75 Kul

2.3.4Western Kiranti1

Thulungyeː ‘dry field, land’Allen 75

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

*Lolo-Burmesehya¹ ‘swidden / field (mountain)’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 594

6.1.1Burmish16

Achang (Longchuan)ʑɔ⁵⁵ n‘paddy fields’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0042.28

Achang (Longchuan)ʑɔ⁵⁵ ‘field’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 27.41

Achang (Xiandao)jɔ⁵⁵ clf‘patch (of ground / field)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0858.29

Achang (Xiandao)jɔ⁵⁵tam⁵⁵morpheme n‘paddy fields’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0042.29

Burmese (Written)laymorpheme◦yā ‘field’Marrison 67 Naga

Hpun (Northern)kămorpheme◦yáʔ ‘ricefield (wet) (v.Field[dry])’Henderson 86 Hpun

Hpun (Northern)yáʔ ‘field (dry) / swidden’Henderson 86 Hpun

Hpun (Northern)yáʔ ‘swidden / hill field / taungya’Henderson 86 Hpun

Langsu (Luxi)jɔ̆²¹thauŋ³⁵morphemekauk³¹morpheme n‘rice (paddy)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0403.31

Langsu (Luxi)jɔ̆³¹thauŋ³⁵morpheme n‘paddy fields’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0042.31

Leqi (Luxi)jo³¹thuŋ⁵⁵morpheme n‘paddy fields’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0042.33

Marmaya ‘field / swidden’Huziwara 08 Sak: 163-3

Maru [Langsu]jɔ̆³¹thauŋ³⁵morpheme ‘field’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 27.43

Atsi [Zaiwa]jŏ²¹thuŋ²¹morphemekuʔ²¹morpheme n‘rice (paddy)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0403.30

Atsi [Zaiwa]jo⁵¹ ‘field’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 27.42

Atsi [Zaiwa]jŏ⁵¹thuŋ²¹morpheme n‘paddy fields’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0042.30

Lisu (Northern)hã³³dɔ⁴⁴morpheme ‘bottom of field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Northern)hã³³gu²¹morpheme ‘top of field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Northern)hã³³mi³³#2453 PTB *m-l(e/ə)y ‘EARTH / COUNTRY / GROUND / MUD / SOIL’PKC *lay ‘EARTH / SOIL / WORLD’PCN *a-lej ‘GROUND, EARTH / FIELD’PTk *lej ‘EARTH’PKar *miᴬ ‘WILD’ ‘land; field; cultivated field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Northern)hã³³mɤ³³morpheme le³³morphemetse⁵⁵morpheme ‘edge of field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Northern)hã³³tsæ⁵⁵morpheme hã³³læʔ²¹morpheme ‘edges and corners of field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Northern)hã³³tɕhi³³morpheme hã⁵⁵æʔ²¹morpheme ‘edges and corners of field’Bradley 94 Lisu

Lisu (Central)hʼa⁴-mi⁴#2453 PTB *m-l(e/ə)y ‘EARTH / COUNTRY / GROUND / MUD / SOIL’PKC *lay ‘EARTH / SOIL / WORLD’PCN *a-lej ‘GROUND, EARTH / FIELD’PTk *lej ‘EARTH’PKar *miᴬ ‘WILD’ ‘field (dry, hillside)’Fraser 22

Lisu (Northern)ji⁵⁵mi⁴⁴#2453 PTB *m-l(e/ə)y ‘EARTH / COUNTRY / GROUND / MUD / SOIL’PKC *lay ‘EARTH / SOIL / WORLD’PCN *a-lej ‘GROUND, EARTH / FIELD’PTk *lej ‘EARTH’PKar *miᴬ ‘WILD’ N‘field’Bradley 94 Lisu

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2

Mpijo⁶ ‘swidden / dry field’Srinuan 76

Silaja55 go55morpheme ‘upland field’Kato 08 Lao: 141

6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish1

Phu Khaha³¹ ‘dry field’Fried 00 PhuKha

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5544, *s-ya ‘SWIDDEN’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5544

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: cf. HPTB p. 171

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5544,
  title  = {{*s-ya 'SWIDDEN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5544},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5544}
}