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STEDT #5784

*Nkak

CRAWL / CREEP

Proto-Loloish · provisional

Reflexes & cognates4 reflexes · 3 subgroups

6.1Lolo-Burmese2

*Lolo-BurmeseNkak (HIGH)‘crawl / creep’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 81

*Lolo-BurmeseNkak ‘crawl / creep’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 81

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Black)gâʔ qay#273 PTB *m/s-k(w)a-y ‘MOUTH / OPENING / SPREAD / DOOR / FACE / JAW’PKC *kaa ‘ENTRANCE / MOUTH’PKC *kaa ⪤ *khaa ‘CHIN / JAW (lower)’PCN *ka ‘GAPE, OPEN MOUTH’PTk *ka ‘OPEN (MOUTH)’PTk *kʰa ‘CHIN / JAW’PKar *kaᴮ ‘CHIN, JAW’ ~ gámorpheme-gomorpheme-lomorpheme temorpheme ‘crawl / creep’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 81

Lahu (Yellow)ga⁶ ‘crawl’Chang 86

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2

Akhaga ̂#657 PTB *ʔay ‘GO / DIRECTIONAL PARTICLE / TRANSITIVE MOTION’-iˇ v.‘to walk as a four footed animal’Lewis 89 AETD: 171

Akhaga-i#657 PTB *ʔay ‘GO / DIRECTIONAL PARTICLE / TRANSITIVE MOTION’ HS-H ‘crawl / creep’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 81

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5784, *Nkak ‘CRAWL / CREEP’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5784

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5784,
  title  = {{*Nkak 'CRAWL / CREEP'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5784},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5784}
}