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*ka

WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC / INTERROGATIVE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

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Notes

The basic form of this interrogative morpheme is *ka, with two suffixed variants. For a discussion of palatal suffixes in Tibeto-Burman, see Matisoff (1995) “Sino-Tibetan palatal suffixes revisited”. The variant with final *-ŋ is attested in Written Tibetan as well as in Lahu.

Chinese comparandum

何 OC *g’ɑ̂, GSR #1f ‘what, why, how’; B & S 2011: *ɡˁaj {[ɡ]ˁaj}; Mand. hé.
幾 OC *ki̯ər, GSR #547a-b ‘how many’; B & S 2011: *kəjʔ; Mand. jǐ.
豈 OC *k’i̯ər, GSR #548a ‘how’; B & S 2011: *C.qʰəjʔ; Mand. qǐ.
S2009 1-1 a’

Reflexes & cognates29 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanka-y ‘which / like / deictic’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 594

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish6

Gazhuoxa³³ni³³morphemeko⁵⁵morpheme intg‘how many / how much’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0958.47
Gazhuoxa³³ni³³morphemema²⁴#3372 PTB *m(r/y)a ‘MANY / MUCH’ intg‘how many (a small number)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0959.47

6.1.2.2Central Loloish15

Lahu (Lancang)qhɑ³¹ kɑ³¹morpheme intg‘where’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0955.43
Lahu (Lancang)qhɑ³¹ ni⁵³morpheme clf‘several / few, a’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0924.43
Lahu (Lancang)qhɑ³¹ thɑ⁵⁴morpheme intg‘when’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0956.43
Lahu (Lancang)qhɑ³¹xi⁵³morpheme intg‘how many (a small number)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0959.43
Lahu (Black)qhà ‘which?; what?; what kind of?’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 488
Lahu (Black)qhᴀ³¹kᴀ³¹morpheme ‘where’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 988.33
Lahu (Yellow)qha⁵ ‘how many / a few’Chang 86
Lahu (Yellow)qha⁵ ‘which’Chang 86

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5590, *ka ‘WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC / INTERROGATIVE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5590
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 488
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5590,
  title  = {{*ka 'WHICH / LIKE / DEICTIC / INTERROGATIVE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5590},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5590}
}