*m-bap

FALL OVER

Notes

The nasal prefix is attested directly in Tibetan dialects and indirectly by the voiced Lahu initial.

Chinese comparandum

乏 OC *b’i̯wɑ̆p, GSR #641a ‘lack; exhaust; neglect’; Schuessler 2007:234 *bap; B & S 2011: *bop {[b](r)[o]p}; Mand. fá.
廢 OC *pi̯wɑ̆d, GSR #275f ‘cast aside; remove; suppress; neglect; cease; fall’; Schuessler 2007:234 *pats; B & S 2011: *pap-s; Mand. fèi.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanm-bap ‘fall over’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 584

2.1.2.1Tibetan7

Tibetan (Written)'bab ‘descend’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)(tɕharmorpheme pamorpheme) ɦbab v.‘fall (rain)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1719.01

Tibetan (Written)ɦbab v.‘land / descend’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1418.01

Tibetan (Written)ɦbab v.‘cave in / sink’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1722.01

Tibetan (Written)ɦbab ‘descend’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 744.1

Tibetan (Written)ɦbab v‘rain’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 750.1

Tibetan (Xiahe)mbap v.‘land / descend’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1418.04

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish5

Nusu (Southern)bɑ³¹lɑ⁵⁵morpheme ‘fall (down)’Sun J 86 Nusu

Nusu (Northern)bɔ³⁵ ‘fall (down)’Sun J 86 Nusu

Nusu (Central)bɔ⁵⁵ v.‘fall over / down’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1277.34

Nusu (Bijiang)bɔ⁵⁵lɑ⁵⁵morpheme ‘fall (down)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 577.45

Yi (Dafang)ba²¹dɿ⁵⁵morpheme ‘drop / fall’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 764.22

6.1.2.2Central Loloish1

Lahu (Black)bôʔ ‘fall over / collapse / bend over / bow / hug the ground’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 83

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #620, *m-bap ‘FALL OVER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/620

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

References: cf. HPTB p.336

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-620,
  title  = {{*m-bap 'FALL OVER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #620},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/620}
}