STEDT #5711

sya-n ⪤ sin

FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER

Connections

Allofams

1 #5711 *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’
1a #34 *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’
1b #318 *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’

Notes

This richly attested root must be considered distinct from #530 PTB *r-sa VEIN / SINEW / INTERNAL CHANNEL / PULSE, although certain forms (especially those meaning ‘muscle’) seem to show overlap between the two roots.

The -n suffix is directly attested in Jingpho, Geman/Kaman, and Chinese.

This morpheme appears as a prefix in numerous animal names and words for parts of the body. See HPTB:102 and STC:106-108.

We are positing an allofamic relationship between the forms with medial *-ya- and *-i-. See HPTB: 278, 306, 449.

No attested reflexes are linked to this etymon.

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5711, *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5711

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

References: JAM

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5711,
  title  = {{*sya-n ⪤ *sin 'FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5711},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5711}
}