*pir

NUMB

Notes

This root bears a strong phonosemantic resemblance to #6424 PTB *pit NUMB, and perhaps should be considered part of the same etymon.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 10 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani1

Bokarpir v.‘numb, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1513.24

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Damubər ‘numb (foot)’Sun J 93 Tani

2.1.2Bodic1

Tshona (Mama)ber¹³ ‘numb’Sun H 80 MLD

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Lhasa)pir¹³ v.‘numb, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1513.02

2.2Newar1

Newarpi:-semorpheme cwanemorpheme adj‘numb (human)’Hale 73 CSD: 12a.10

Hani (Mojiang)xa³¹morphemepi̱³³ pi̱³³ v.‘numb, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1513.42

6.2Naxi1

Naxipɯ⁵⁵ v.‘numb, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1513.45

8Bai2

Bai (Jianchuan)piə⁴² v.‘numb, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1513.48

Bai (Jianchuan)piɯ̱²¹ be v.‘numb / be paralyzed’Zhao 90: 12.3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5685, *pir ‘NUMB’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5685

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

References: JAM

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5685,
  title  = {{*pir 'NUMB'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5685},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5685}
}