Intermediate reconstructions
Notes
The Qiangic languages attest both of the principal roots for BAMBOO, the present root and #2549 PTB *r/g/s-pʷa BAMBOO.
Reflexes & cognates171 reflexes · 10 subgroups
2.1.4Tamangish1
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang3
Chepangmo n.‘bamboo (sp.), with thin, dark green stems, found at higher altitudes - used to make baskets, Arundinaria intermedia’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangmo.mamorpheme.duŋmorpheme n.‘plant (sp.), bamboo (sp.) Arundinaria intermedia (ch.)’Caughley 00 Chepang
3.2Qiangic25
Muyarə³³#2549 PTB *r/g/s-pʷa ‘BAMBOO’PKC *rua ‘BAMBOO’PCN *pwa/pu ‘BAMBOO’PCN *r-hwaʔ ‘BAMBOO’PTk *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PQ *s-pu ⪤ *m-pu ‘BAMBOO’PLB *wa² ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwaᴮ ‘BAMBOO’mbə⁵⁵tɕø⁵³morpheme n‘bamboo’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0389.15
Muya [Minyak]ʐɯ³⁵#2549 PTB *r/g/s-pʷa ‘BAMBOO’PKC *rua ‘BAMBOO’PCN *pwa/pu ‘BAMBOO’PCN *r-hwaʔ ‘BAMBOO’PTk *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PQ *s-pu ⪤ *m-pu ‘BAMBOO’PLB *wa² ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwaᴮ ‘BAMBOO’mbɯ⁵³tɕø⁵³morpheme ‘bamboo’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 183.15
Muya [Minyak]ʐɯ³⁵#2549 PTB *r/g/s-pʷa ‘BAMBOO’PKC *rua ‘BAMBOO’PCN *pwa/pu ‘BAMBOO’PCN *r-hwaʔ ‘BAMBOO’PTk *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PQ *s-pu ⪤ *m-pu ‘BAMBOO’PLB *wa² ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwaᴮ ‘BAMBOO’mbɯ⁵³tɕø⁵³morphemepɐ⁵⁵morphemepɐ⁵³morpheme ‘bamboo shoot’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 184.15
Namuyima³³tsæ⁵³#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’ n‘section of bamboo used as container’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0568.46
Xumimɛ⁵⁵ta⁵⁵morphemeʔũ⁵⁵morpheme n‘section of bamboo used as container’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0568.17
Zhaba (Daofu County)mɛ⁵⁵ tu³³morpheme tu³³morpheme n‘section of bamboo used as container’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0568.14
3.3rGyalrongic1
6.1.2Loloish2
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish44
Yi (Dafang)mɔ³³me³³#2477 PTB *s-m(y)ik ‘CANE / SPROUT’PKC *yiik ‘TIP / TOP / EDGE / SPROUT’ ‘bamboo shoot’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 184.22
Yi (Liangshan)ma²¹mɿ⁵⁵#2477 PTB *s-m(y)ik ‘CANE / SPROUT’PKC *yiik ‘TIP / TOP / EDGE / SPROUT’ ‘bamboo shoots’Ma 08 Yi: index
Yi (Nanhua)mo³³tɕɿ̄³³morphemethu²¹morpheme n‘section of bamboo used as container’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0568.37
Yi (Nanjian)vɑ²¹#2549 PTB *r/g/s-pʷa ‘BAMBOO’PKC *rua ‘BAMBOO’PCN *pwa/pu ‘BAMBOO’PCN *r-hwaʔ ‘BAMBOO’PTk *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PQ *s-pu ⪤ *m-pu ‘BAMBOO’PLB *wa² ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwa ‘BAMBOO’PKar *hwaᴮ ‘BAMBOO’dzɿ⁵⁵morpheme; mɑ⁵⁵dzɿ⁵⁵morpheme ‘bamboo’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 183.23
Yi (Wuding)mu³³tu̱⁵⁵morphememɯ̱²morphemedv̩³³morpheme n‘tube (bamboo) for blowing on a fire’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0567.38
Yi (Xide)ma²¹m̩(ɿ)⁵⁵#2477 PTB *s-m(y)ik ‘CANE / SPROUT’PKC *yiik ‘TIP / TOP / EDGE / SPROUT’ ‘bamboo shoot’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 184.21
Yi (Xide)mɑ³³bɑ³³morphemedzo³⁴morpheme n‘section of bamboo used as container’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0568.35
6.1.2.2Central Loloish78
Lisu (Northern)ma³³da³³morpheme ji⁵⁵morphemetsi⁵⁵#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’ ‘bamboo joint’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³da³³morphemeɣɔʔ²¹morpheme ‘root of Chinese thorowax; bamboo-leaf-vegetable’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³da³³morphemeɲa³⁵morpheme ‘brown parrotbill ('brown crow-tit') Paradoxornis uinicolor (bird living in bamboo groves)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³dɤ²¹morphemetɕæ³³morpheme ‘bamboo slat (flattened piece used as floor)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³gɔ³³morpheme dʑɔ²¹morphemema³³morpheme ‘mouth organ (made of bamboo)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³hĩ³³morpheme ‘mao bamboo (with long section and tough outer layer)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³khwa²¹morpheme ji⁵⁵morphemephi²¹morpheme n‘piece of 'dragon-bamboo'’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³khwa²¹morpheme la⁵⁵morphemetɕhi⁵⁵morpheme ‘bamboo worm (on dragon bamboo )’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³khwa²¹morphemenæ³³morpheme ‘green dragon bamboo (with long section, long thin fibre)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³meʔ²¹#2477 PTB *s-m(y)ik ‘CANE / SPROUT’PKC *yiik ‘TIP / TOP / EDGE / SPROUT’ ‘bamboo shoot’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Central)ma³³myʔ²¹#2477 PTB *s-m(y)ik ‘CANE / SPROUT’PKC *yiik ‘TIP / TOP / EDGE / SPROUT’ ‘bamboo shoot’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³ne²¹#275 PTB *ʔ-ney ‘BAMBOO STRIP (for tying)’TGTM *hnãi ‘FIBER’PLB *ʔ-nay¹/² ⪤ *ʔ-ney² ‘FIBER / BAMBOO STRIP (for tying)’ ‘bamboo strip; rind of bamboo; outer cuticle of a bamboo stem’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³ne²¹morpheme si²¹morphemekhi²¹morpheme ‘inner skin of bamboo stem’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³phu²¹#1235 PTB *plu ‘WHITE / SILVER / MONEY’PLB *plu¹ ‘WHITE / SILVER / MONEY’læ³³morpheme ‘white hollow-centred bamboo (with long hollow sections)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³tsi⁵⁵#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’ ‘bamboo joint’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³tsi⁵⁵#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’be⁴⁴morpheme ‘kind of bamboo with thick joints’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³ɣaʔ²¹morpheme thɔ²¹morphemeɤ²¹morpheme ‘bamboo book; bamboo slips and silk; bamboo slip’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³ɤʔ²¹morphemeɲa³⁵morpheme ‘tit (yellow beaked; long tailed, greyish yellow feathered, living in bamboo forest on high mountains)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma³³ʃɿ⁵⁵morpheme ‘thin bamboo (growing on top of snow mountaina, can be used to make broom)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma⁴⁴da³³morpheme sa³³#2666 PTB *g-sum ‘THREE’PTani *ɦum ‘THREE’PKC *thum ‘THREE’PCN *a-sam ‘THREE’PTk *tʰum ‘THREE’PBG *ta'm ‘THREE’PNN *C̬-sum ‘THREE’TGTM *ᴮsom ‘THREE’PLB *sum² ‘THREE’PL *C-sum² ‘THREE’PKar *səmᴬ ‘THREE’ thɤ³⁵morpheme ‘three bamboo sticks’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ma⁴⁴da³³morphemetsi⁵⁵#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’ ‘bamboo joint; knot’Bradley 94 Lisu
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1
6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish8
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #5664,
*ma ‘BAMBOO’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5664Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: JAM
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5664,
title = {{*ma 'BAMBOO'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5664},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5664}
}