STEDT
Verbs of Motion, of Manipulation, and of Production  ›  Action Verbs with Patient  ›  Assorted action verbs  ›  Open/Close  ›  Open
STEDT #5824

*phya-k

OPEN / RELEASE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Notes

We posit a PTB etymon *phya(k) ‘open; release’ based on evidence mostly from Himalayish languages. An allofamic relationship with #5616 PTB *pryak SEPARATE / SPLIT is likely; at the same time, *phya(k) and *pryak differ in their semantic focus as well as their areal distribution within Tibeto-Burman. Perhaps the two etyma might be treated as mesoroots of an PTB super-etymon, as yet unproposed.

Good Chinese comparanda exist for both *phyak and *pryak; these comparanda can themselves be considered allofamic within Chinese.

Chinese comparandum

闢 OC *b’i̯ĕk, GSR #853k ‘open; open up’; Coblin 86:114 ST *byeʔ > OC *bjik; Schuessler 2007:414 *bek < *bai-k; B & S 2011: (*bˁek); Mand. pì.

Reflexes & cognates26 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

2.1.1Western Himalayish1

Rongpophyag- vt.‘open’Sharma 2003: 1072

2.1.2Bodic13

Tsangla (Motuo)pʻek⁵⁵ ‘open’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tsangla (Tilang)phyak-khomorpheme ‘release’also contains *s-prwa-kZhang Jichuan 86
Tshona (Wenlang)phe⁵⁵ ‘open (door)’Lu 86 CuoM
Tshona (Wenlang)phe⁵⁵ ‘open (lid)’Lu 86 CuoM
Tshona (Mama)phe⁵³ ‘open (door)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 658.6
Tshona (Mama)phe⁵³ ‘open (lid)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 659.6
Motuo Menbaphek v.‘open (door, lock)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1246.07
Cuona Menbaphe⁵³ v.‘open (a door)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1461.06

2.1.2.1Tibetan8

Tibetan (Batang)sha⁵⁵morphemegøʔ⁵³morphemephɛʔ⁵³ v.‘open up wasteland’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1466.03
Tibetan (Jirel)phet-ā-te adj‘open’Hale 73 CSD: 12c.33
Tibetan (Lhasa)pi⁵² ‘open (an umbrella)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1191.02
Tibetan (Written)(sgo)morpheme phje v.‘open (a door)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1461.01

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang4

Chepangphyah- vai.‘opened, teased out, combed (hair, etc.), spread out (hand)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangphyah.kru#307 PTB *s-g(r)u ‘ELBOW / CUBIT’ nm.‘long cubit (elbow to tip of extended fingers)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangphyah.kru#307 PTB *s-g(r)u ‘ELBOW / CUBIT’ nm.‘cubit (long), with fingers extended’Caughley 00 Chepang

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5824, *phya-k ‘OPEN / RELEASE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5824
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5824,
  title  = {{*phya-k 'OPEN / RELEASE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5824},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5824}
}