STEDT
Natural Objects, Plants, Foods  ›  Natural Objects  ›  Landforms and geographical features
STEDT #6223

*m/r-duŋ

MOUNTAIN / HILLOCK
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

The Chin/Burmese comparison is due to VanBik; the Tibeto-Burman--Chinese comparison is due to Gong 2000:#22.

Chinese comparandum

冢 OC *ti̯ung, GSR #1218h ‘mound, peak; great’; Schuessler 2007:622 *troŋʔ; B & S 2011: *troŋʔ {[t]roŋʔ} (or *[t]<r>oŋʔ ?); Mand. zhǒng.

Reflexes & cognates22 reflexes · 10 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanm/r-duŋ ‘mountain / hillock’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 587

1.1.1.1Western Tani4

Bokardimorpheme-tuŋ ‘mountain (without trails)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokardimorpheme◦tuŋ n‘hill / mountain’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0023.24

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

1.2.4“Old Kuki”1

Sorbungcíiŋmorpheme-tòoŋ ‘mountain’Mortensen 11 Sorbung: Nature.123

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)rduŋ ‘small mound, hillock’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 285

6.1.1Burmish9

Burmese (Rangoon)tɑ̃u²² n‘hill / mountain’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0023.27
Burmese (Rangoon)tɑ̃u²²sɑ̃u⁵⁵morpheme n‘hillside / mountain slope’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0024.27
Burmese (Written)toŋ ‘hill, mountain’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)tɔŋ²sɔŋ²morpheme n‘hillside / mountain slope’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0024.26

9Sinitic2

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)ti̯ung/t̂i̯wong: ‘mound / peak;great’Karlgren 57 GSR: 1218h-i
Chinese (Old)troŋʔ {[t]roŋʔ} (or *[t]<r>oŋʔ ?) ‘tomb mound’BaxterSagart 2011: 3931

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6223, *m/r-duŋ ‘MOUNTAIN / HILLOCK’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6223
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p.285
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6223,
  title  = {{*m/r-duŋ 'MOUNTAIN / HILLOCK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6223},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6223}
}