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*m-nyaŋ

CAN / BE ABLE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Notes

Further confirmation of this root would be welcome.

Chinese comparandum

能 OC *nəg / nəng, GSR #885a ‘be able’; B & S 2011: *nˁə {nˁə(ʔ)}~ nˁəŋ; Mand. néng.
態 OC *t’nəg, GSR #885f ‘bearing, manner’; Schuessler 2007:398 *nhə̂h; B & S 2011: *n̥ˁə-s; Mand. tài.

Reflexes & cognates20 reflexes · 6 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani3

Bokar(in)morpheme ȵõː v.‘can’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1531.24
Bokar-ñoː ‘can’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarñoː ‘able’Sun J 93 Tani

4Nungic1

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish4

Hani (Lüchun)xhə́morpheme nja ‘can’Hansson 89 AHKP: 28

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5742, *m-nyaŋ ‘CAN / BE ABLE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5742
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: LL
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5742,
  title  = {{*m-nyaŋ 'CAN / BE ABLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5742},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5742}
}