*N-gu¹

HELP

Chinese comparandum

求 OC *g’i̯ôg, GSR #1066a-d ‘seek, ask’; Schuessler 2007:320 *gu; B & S 2011: *ɡu {[ɡ](r)u}}; Mand. qiú.
kuh seek, investigate S319
救 OC *ki̯ôg, GSR #1066m ‘help, save’; Schuessler 2007:319-20 *kuh; B & S 2011: *s.ku-s {s.k(r)u-s}; Mand. jiù.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 2 subgroups

6.1.1Burmish16

Burmese (Rangoon)ku²²ȵi²²suffix ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.27

Burmese (Spoken Rangoon)ku²² ‘help’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 699.40

Burmese (Spoken Rangoon)ku⁵³ ‘treat / cure’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 701.40

Burmese (Written)ku v‘help’Marrison 67 Naga

Burmese (Written)ku ‘help’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)ku² ‘help’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 699.39

Burmese (Written)ku²ȵi²suffix ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.26

Burmese (Written)ku¹ ‘treat / cure’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 701.39

Burmese (Written)kuʼ ‘give medicine, cure’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)əprefix-kuʼ- ‘give medicine, cure’Benedict 76 WBur

Langsu (Luxi)kə̆³¹ʒum⁵⁵morpheme ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.31

Leqi (Luxi)kə̆³¹ʒum⁵⁵morpheme ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.33

Marmaku ‘help’Huziwara 08 Sak: 195-2

Maru [Langsu]kə̆³¹ʒum³³morpheme ‘help’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 699.43

Atsi [Zaiwa]kĕ²¹ʒum⁵⁵morpheme ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.30

Atsi [Zaiwa]kĕ²¹ʒum⁵⁵morpheme ‘help’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 699.42

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish5

Nusu (Central)gu³³ ‘help’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1140.34

Nusu (Northern)gu³¹ ‘help’Sun J 86 Nusu

Nusu (Southern)mo⁵⁵gu⁵⁵ ‘help’Sun J 86 Nusu

Nusu (Northern)mu³¹gu³¹i⁵⁵morpheme ‘help each other’Sun J 86 Nusu

Nusu (Bijiang)m̩³⁵gu³⁵ ‘help’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 699.45

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5771, *N-gu¹ ‘HELP’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5771

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5771,
  title  = {{*N-gu¹ 'HELP'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5771},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5771}
}