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STEDT #5713

*bay¹/²

DUCK
Proto-Lolo-Burmese

Notes

WB bhâi (< Tone *2); Lahu á-pɛ̀ (< Tone *1); Mpi tɕa²peʔ⁴ seems to reflect a prototype with final stop. The unusual WB initial (Bradley #53a reconstructs ʔ-b) adds to the impression that this is a loanword, and in fact a Southeast Asian areal etymon. Cf. PTai *pet. Benedict reconstructs Proto Austro-Tai *bets (1975a, p. 276).

This root appears primarily in Lolo-Burmese, with perhaps a couple of scattered borrowings in Qiangic.

Other areal words for DUCK that have been borrowed into TB are Indo-Aryan #5716 IA *battakh DUCK, Nepali #5717 IA *hā̩s DUCK, and Mandarin #5718 CH *yāzi DUCK.

Chinese comparandum

鴄 OC (*p’i̯ĕt), GSR (not in #408) ‘duck’; Schuessler 2007:413 *phit; B & S 2011: *pʰit {pʰi[t]}); Mand. pǐ.

Reflexes & cognates48 reflexes · 12 subgroups

3.1Tangut1

Tangut [Xixia]bə ‘mandarin duck’Li 97 Tangut: 3301

3.2Qiangic2

Xumiɦõ³³loanwordba⁵³ n‘duck (mallard)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.17

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

6.1.2Loloish1

*Loloishʔ-bay² ‘duck’Bradley 79 PLo: 53A

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2

6.1.2.2Central Loloish8

Kuconga31prefix piɛ31 ‘duck’Dai 09 Kucong
Lahu (Lancang)ɑ³³prefixpɛ³¹ n‘duck’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.43
Lahu (Lancang)ɑ³³prefixpɛ³¹lo³⁵morpheme n‘goose’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0301.43
Lahu (Black)ɣə³¹morphemeA³³prefixpe³¹ ‘wild goose’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 144.33
Lahu (Black)ᴀ³³prefixpɛ³¹ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.33
Lahu (Black)ᴀ³³prefixpɛ³¹lo³⁵morpheme ‘goose’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 139.33

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish6

Hani (Caiyuan)ɔ³¹prefixpe⁵⁵ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.30
Hani (Shuikui)ɔ³¹prefixpɛ⁵⁵ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.32
Hani (Mojiang)ɔ³¹prefixpɛ⁵⁵ n‘duck’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.42
Mpitɕa²morphemepeʔ⁴ ‘duck’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 158
Mpitɕa²morphemepeʔ⁴ n.‘duck’Srinuan 76
Mpitɕɑ²morphemepeʔ⁴ n.‘duck’Srinuan 76

6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish6

Azhaʑɛ³³morphemepi⁴⁴ ‘duck’Pelkey 11 Phula: 111
Southern Mujiʑi²¹morphemepi²¹ɬi²¹morphemea²¹morpheme ‘wild duck’Pelkey 11 Phula: 121
Southern Mujiʑɛ³³morphemebi²¹ ‘duck’Pelkey 11 Phula: 111
Phu Khaja³¹morpheme pjɛ³³ ‘duck’Fried 00 PhuKha
Phuzaa³³prefixpɛ⁵⁵ ‘duck’Pelkey 11 Phula: 111
Phuzaa³³prefixpɛ⁵⁵tɬʰa⁵⁵morphemewɔ³³morpheme ‘wild duck’Pelkey 11 Phula: 121

6.2Naxi2

Laze (Xiangjiao)bæ˧mie˧suffix ‘duck’Michaud 06 NaLaze: 3617
Na (Yongning)bæ˧mi˧suffix ‘duck’Michaud 06 NaLaze

7Karenic1

X.1Non-TB2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5713, *bay¹/² ‘DUCK’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5713
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Matisoff 85 GSTC:158
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5713,
  title  = {{*bay¹/² 'DUCK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5713},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5713}
}