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STEDT #5719

*p-(r/y)an

SPREAD (wide) / STRETCH OUT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Lolo-Burmese*ʔwan ‘WIDE’

Notes

WB has a simplex/causative pair, and Jingpho has a complex word family.

Lahu fe ‘wide’ seems to reflect a PLB allofam *ʔwan (either Tone *1 or Tone *3).

Chinese comparandum

徧/遍 OC *piɑn, GSR #246b-c ‘all around, universally’; B & S 2011: *pˁen-s {pˁe[n]-s}; Mand. biàn.
衍 OC *gi̯ɑn, GSR #197a ‘overflowing; abundant, extensive’; Schuessler 2007:554 *janʔ/s; B & S 2011: *N-qanʔ {N-q(r)anʔ}; Mand. yǎn ~ yàn.
演 OC *di̯ɑn, GSR #450k-l ‘flow out, extend’; Schuessler 2007:554 *janʔ; B & S 2011: *ɢerʔ {[ɢ][a][r]ʔ}; Mand. yǎn.
延
愆 OC *k’i̯ɑn, GSR #197b ‘exceed; err, lose; error’; Schuessler 2007:554 *khrian; B & S 2011: *C.ɢran {C.qʰra[n]}; Mand. qiān.

Reflexes & cognates18 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanp-ran ⪤ p-yan ‘spread (wide) / stretch out’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015

1.7.3.1Jingpho6

Jingphophrān ‘spread (wide) / stretch out’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Jingphophran ‘grow, unfold and flatten (as a leaf)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Jingphophyàn ‘spread wings, as a bird; spread wide; open, unroll, and flatten out’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Jingphophɹan³¹ ‘untie’Liu 84
Jingphophʒan³¹ ‘untie’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 662.47
Jingphopyān ‘untie a knot, (fig.) untangle a knotty problem’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015

6.1Lolo-Burmese2

*Lolo-Burmese(ʔ)bran³ ⪤ pran³/¹ ⪤ ʔwan¹/³ ‘spread wide / stretch out’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
*Lolo-Burmeseʔ-bran³ ‘spread wide’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 585

6.1.1Burmish5

Burmese (Written)phran' ‘spread out, expand, spread wings (causative)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Burmese (Written)phranʼ ‘spread out, expand; spread wings’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)pran' be v.‘expanded, spread out, level (simplex)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Burmese (Written)pranʼ be v.‘expanded, spread out; to be level’Benedict 76 WBur

6.1.2.2Central Loloish4

Lahu (Black)fe³³; qɛ³¹morpheme ‘wide’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 815.33
Lahu (Black)phe ‘spread something out (blanket, cloth, one's palm)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2

Mpiphe⁵ ‘wide’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 015
Mpiphe⁵ ‘wide’Srinuan 76

7Karenic1

Pa-Ophrá nâmmorpheme ‘stretch oneself’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5719, *p-(r/y)an ‘SPREAD (wide) / STRETCH OUT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5719
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Matisoff 85 GSTC:015
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5719,
  title  = {{*p-(r/y)an 'SPREAD (wide) / STRETCH OUT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5719},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5719}
}