Reconstruction analysis
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Intermediate reconstructions
Connections
HPTB*saːw ‘fat / grease / oil’pp. 32, 56, 225, 226, 227
See alsoOIL, GREASE
Notes
This well-established root has acquired an -s suffix of unknown meaning in Magar.
Chinese comparandum
臊 OC *sɑ̂u, GSR #1134e; B & S 2011: *m-sˁaw; Mand. sāo.
Reflexes & cognates171 reflexes · 26 subgroups
0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)8
1.1.2Deng5
1.2Kuki-Chin4
Analsa#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-thɛ ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP
Ngawnsa#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-thau ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP
1.2.1.1Northern Chin11
1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin10
1.2.2Central Chin11
Laizosa#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-thau ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP
1.2.3Maraic6
Lakher [Mara]sa#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-thawh ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP
Lakher [Mara]²sə#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’²thɔ n.‘fat’Weidert 87 TBTo: 98
1.2.4“Old Kuki”3
Kom Reməprefix◦ri#2127 PTB *riːl ‘INTESTINES / BOWELS / BELLY / STOMACH’PKC *ril ⪤ *rul ‘INTESTINES / BOWELS / ENTRAILS’PCN *a-(h)rə ‘INTESTINES’PTk *ril ‘INTESTINES’ rəŋmorpheme tʰəi ‘fat around intestines / omentum’Toba 91 KRQ: 8.3.1
1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)4
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)sa#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’◦mo#1441 PTB *mwa-ŋ ‘FAT’, tüprefix◦so n‘fat’Marrison 67 Naga
1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group7
Rengmatha◦zü#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’, tereprobable loanword◦zü#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’ ‘oil’Marrison 67 Naga
Sema [Sumi]aprefix◦tha, aprefix◦mi#2136 PTB *mey ‘FIRE’PTani *mə ‘FIRE’PKC *may ‘FIRE’PCN *mej(ʔ) ‘FIRE’PTk *mej ‘FIRE’PLB *s/ʔ-mey² ‘FIRE’PKar *hmeᴮ ‘FIRE’◦zü#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’ ‘oil’Hutton 1921 (The Sema Nagas), p. 430: ‘atha (fat), amizü (kerosine [sic.], lit. “fire-water”)’.Marrison 67 Naga
Sema [Sumi]aprefix◦tha-zü#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’ ‘oil / grease (for cooking)’Achumi 98: 8.3.2
1.3.3Zeme Group8
1.3.4Tangkhulic22
1.4Meithei5
Meitheima#1470 PTB *s-mar ‘GOLD / YELLOW / BUTTER / OIL’TGTM *ᴮmar ‘GOLD’TGTM *ᴬmar ‘BUTTER’◦hâo ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP
Meitheima#1470 PTB *s-mar ‘GOLD / YELLOW / BUTTER / OIL’TGTM *ᴮmar ‘GOLD’TGTM *ᴬmar ‘BUTTER’◦hau n‘fat’Marrison 67 Naga
1.7.1.1Bodo8
1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1
1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5
1.7.3.1Jingpho15
2.1.3Lepcha1
Lepchaso-ōl#4513 PTB *hur ⪤ *hwar ⪤ *⪤ *hir ⪤ *hyar ‘SWEAT’Allofams2 #6713 PTB *(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t) ‘FIRE / BURN / SHINE / BRIGHT / LIGHT / WHITE’2a #2152 PTB *bʷar ⪤ *pʷar ‘BURN / FIRE / KINDLE / ROAST’2b #5683 PTB *hwa(ː)r ⪤ *yar ‘WHITE / YELLOW / BRIGHT / SHINE’2c #4513 PTB *hur ⪤ *hwar ⪤ *⪤ *hir ⪤ *hyar ‘SWEAT’2d #694 PTB *hul ⪤ *hwa(ː)l ‘HEAT UP / BURN’2e #5395 PTB *hwa(l/r) ‘FIRE / SHINE’2f #3609 PTB *hwam ‘BURN / SHINE’2g #5518 PTB *hwaŋ ‘SHINE / BRIGHT / YELLOW’2h #2271 PTB *hwa(n/t) ‘SHINE / LIGHT’2i #165 PTB *b/s-wa ‘WHITE / YELLOW / BRIGHT’ n.‘sweat’Matisoff 87 BP
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang10
3.1Tangut2
3.2Qiangic7
Qiang (Longxi)sò ímorpheme-mú#2136 PTB *mey ‘FIRE’PTani *mə ‘FIRE’PKC *may ‘FIRE’PCN *mej(ʔ) ‘FIRE’PTk *mej ‘FIRE’PLB *s/ʔ-mey² ‘FIRE’PKar *hmeᴮ ‘FIRE’-gúmorpheme ‘vegetable oil lamp [vegetable.oil-fire-m]’Evans 99 Qiang: 739
5Tujia9
Tujiase²¹ si³⁵#48 PTB *tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’ ‘oil / grease (for cooking)’Chen 86 TuBQ: 8.3.2
Tujia (Northern)se³si²#48 PTB *tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’ha³morpheme v‘press oil’Brassett 06 Tujia: 3.4
Tujiasie²¹si³⁵#48 PTB *tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’ n‘oil (vegetable)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0446.49
Tujia (Northern)tong³morphemese³si²#48 PTB *tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’ ‘tung oil’Brassett 06 Tujia: 3.4
7Karenic19
9.0.1Old Chinese3
9.0.2Middle Chinese1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #60,
*saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/60Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC#272, GSR 1134e, HPTB
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-60,
title = {{*saːw 'FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #60},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/60}
}