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STEDT #5589

*kaŋ

WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

Allofams

1a #5590 *ka ‘WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC / INTERROGATIVE’
1b #5735 *kay ‘WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC’
1c #5589 *kaŋ ‘WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC’

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 3 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmankaŋ ‘which / like / deictic’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 595

2.1.2.1Tibetan7

Tibetan (Lhasa)kaŋ¹³ka⁵⁵morpheme num‘all / everything’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0962.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)kaŋ¹⁵ka⁵³morpheme ‘all / even’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 999.2

Tibetan (Sherpa)'kang ‘what’Hale 73 CSD: 01.007

Tibetan (Written)gaṅ ‘what?’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)gaṅ ‘who?’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)gaŋ intg‘what’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0954.01

Tibetan (Written)gaŋ gamorpheme ‘all / even’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 999.1

6.1.2.2Central Loloish4

Lahu (Black)qhɔ̀ ‘where?’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 488

Lahu (Black)qhɔ̀ vemorpheme ‘what kind of?’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 488

Lahu (Black)qhɔ̀-thâʔmorpheme ‘when?’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 488

Lahu (Yellow)qhɔ⁵ka²morpheme ‘where’Chang 86

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5589, *kaŋ ‘WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5589

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

References: cf. HPTB p. 488

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5589,
  title  = {{*kaŋ 'WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5589},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5589}
}