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STEDT #5781

*poŋ

RAFT / FLOAT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Notes

This is apparently a Southeast Asian areal word; see also #4159 PTB *pu(u)m RAFT.

Chinese comparandum

方 OC *pi̯wɑng, GSR #740a-f ‘two boats lashed together; lash boats together; cross (a river by boat)’; Schuessler 2007:231 *paŋ; B & S 2011: *paŋ; Mand. fāng.
舫 OC *pi̯wɑng ~ *pwɑ̂ng, GSR #740g-h ‘boat’; Schuessler 2007:231 *paŋh; B & S 2011: *paŋ-s ~ *pˁaŋ-s; Mand. fǎng.

Reflexes & cognates15 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1.2.1.1Northern Chin1

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphophōŋ n.‘raft / float’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 78

7Karenic3

Pa-Ophɔ́ŋ ‘raft’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5781, *poŋ ‘RAFT / FLOAT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5781
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5781,
  title  = {{*poŋ 'RAFT / FLOAT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5781},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5781}
}