*brun

EXCREMENT

Chinese comparandum

糞 OC *pi̯wən, GSR #472a ‘manure; to cleanse (remove soil)’; WT brun; Coblin 86: ST *prjun > PC *prjənh > OC *pjənh; B & S 2011 *pur-s {*p[u]r-s}; Mand. fèn.

Reflexes & cognates9 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

*Sino-Tibetanprjun ‘dung / excrement’Coblin 86: 68

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)brun ‘dirt; dung; shit’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)brun ‘dung, excrement, feces’Coblin 86: 68

9Sinitic5

Chinese (Hanzi)牛morpheme◦粪 ‘excrement of cattle’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0138

Chinese (Hanzi)羊morpheme◦粪 ‘excrement of sheep’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0137

Chinese (Hanzi)马morpheme◦粪 ‘excrement of horse’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0139

Chinese (Hanzi)驴morpheme◦粪◦／◦骡◦粪 ‘excrement of donkey’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0140

"Pre-Chinese"prjənh ‘dung / excrement’Coblin 86: 68

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old)pjənh ‘dung / excrement’Coblin 86: 68

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Chinese (Mandarin)fehn◦biahnmorpheme ‘excrement’Sun J 85 ChGl: 235

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6056, *brun ‘EXCREMENT’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6056

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

References: WSC-SH: 68

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-6056,
  title  = {{*brun 'EXCREMENT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6056},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6056}
}