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STEDT #6129

*pʷa

LOOK FOR / SEARCH
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Central Naga (Ao Group)*pwa ‘SEARCH, SEEK’PCN #036
Tangkhulic*pʰa ‘SEEK’DRM#337

Notes

This root has so far been found only in the NE Indian linguistic area.

Reflexes & cognates25 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanpa ‘search for / seek’Mortensen 12 Tk
*Tibeto-Burmanpa ‘search for / seek’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 606

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)12

*Aopwa-ʃisuffix ‘SEARCH FOR, SEEK’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.370
Ao (Chungli)bu◦shisuffix ‘seek’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)bu◦shisuffix ‘hunt’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)pu²si²suffix v.‘search for / study’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.370
Ao (Chungli)pū◦sīsuffix v.‘search’Temsunungsang 09 Ao: 3
Ao (Chungli)pu◦tetsuffix v‘find’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Khensa)phà◦simorpheme v.‘search’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.370
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)pha◦shisuffix ‘seek’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)pha◦sisuffix ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)pa◦sisuffix v.‘search [searched]’Coupe 07 Ao
Sangtampu◦chimorpheme ‘seek’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group6

Chokriphu ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Ntenyipha ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Rengmafü ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Sema [Sumi]phu◦chemorpheme ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.3Zeme Group3

Liangmeiphiu ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Zemepeu ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic7

Huishukəmorpheme-pʰe ‘seek / search’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.049
Kachaikəmorpheme-pʰu ‘seek / search’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.041
Tangkhulpha ‘search’Bhat 69 TNV: 96
Tangkhulpha ‘look for’Marrison 67 Naga
Tusomkəmorpheme-pʃi ‘seek / search’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.052
Ukhrulkəmorpheme-pʰa ‘seek, search, look for’Mortensen 12 Tk

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6129, *pʷa ‘LOOK FOR / SEARCH’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6129
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: based on HPTB #952 (p.24)
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6129,
  title  = {{*pʷa 'LOOK FOR / SEARCH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6129},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6129}
}