Reconstruction analysis
handlelyakprefixminitiallyrhymeak ⪤ s-lcoverL · VLTS
Intermediate reconstructions
Lolo-Burmese*m-lyak ⪤ *ʔ-lyak ‘LICK’
Loloish*m-lyakᴸ ‘LICK’
Connections
Allofams
- 1a #621 *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’
- 1b #623 *s/m-l(y)a-t ‘TONGUE’
- 1c #625 *s-lyam ‘TONGUE / LICK / FLAME’
- 1d #628 *s-lyaːw ‘LICK / TONGUE’
- 1e #629 *m/s/g-lyak ‘LICK / TONGUE’
HPTB*m/s-lyak ‘lick / tongue / eat (of animals) / feed (animals)’pp. 23, 48, 80, 81, 92, 124, 137, 153, 323, 327, 528
Notes
Several languages (Sani, Nocte, some Tibetan dialects) have a dental stop instead of the lateral. Written Tibetan has a doublet ldag ‘lick’ ⪤ ldz̀ags ‘tongue, lick’.
Chinese comparandum
舐 OC *gʼi̯ɑk ~ g’i̯ok, GSR #803h ‘tongue’; Coblin 86:102 *; Schuessler 2007: *; B & S 2011: *Cə.leʔ; Mand. shì.
食 OC *d̑i̯ək, GSR #921a-c ‘eat’; Schuessler 2007:463 *m-lək; B & S 2011: *mə-lək; Mand. shí.
食/飼 OC *dzi̯əg, GSR #921a-c ‘food; give food to; raise, nourish’; Schuessler 2007:463 *s-ləkh; B & S 2011: *s-m-lək-s; Mand. sì.
Reflexes & cognates437 reflexes · 52 subgroups
0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)9
1.1.1.1Western Tani15
1.1.1.2Eastern Tani5
1.1.2Deng12
1.2Kuki-Chin2
1.2.1.1Northern Chin6
1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2
1.2.2Central Chin9
1.2.3Maraic1
1.2.4“Old Kuki”4
1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)20
1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group9
1.3.3Zeme Group5
1.3.4Tangkhulic12
1.4Meithei2
1.5Mikir [Karbi]6
1.7.1.1Bodo6
Lalung [Tiwa]plai#621 PTB *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’MesorootsPKC *lay ‘TONGUE’PCN *m-lej(ʔ) ‘TONGUE’PTk *lej ‘TONGUE’PKar *bleᴬ ‘TONGUE’PKar *hlajᴮ ‘LICK (v.)’Allofams1a #621 PTB *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’1b #623 PTB *s/m-l(y)a-t ‘TONGUE’1c #625 PTB *s-lyam ‘TONGUE / LICK / FLAME’1d #628 PTB *s-lyaːw ‘LICK / TONGUE’1e #629 PTB *m/s/g-lyak ‘LICK / TONGUE’ plai#621 PTB *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’MesorootsPKC *lay ‘TONGUE’PCN *m-lej(ʔ) ‘TONGUE’PTk *lej ‘TONGUE’PKar *bleᴬ ‘TONGUE’PKar *hlajᴮ ‘LICK (v.)’Allofams1a #621 PTB *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’1b #623 PTB *s/m-l(y)a-t ‘TONGUE’1c #625 PTB *s-lyam ‘TONGUE / LICK / FLAME’1d #628 PTB *s-lyaːw ‘LICK / TONGUE’1e #629 PTB *m/s/g-lyak ‘LICK / TONGUE’ chemorpheme◦la◦naʔmorpheme ‘lick’Balawan 65
1.7.1.2Garo5
1.7.1.3Koch1
1.7.2.1Tangsa-Nocte3
1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5
1.7.3.1Jingpho7
1.7.3.2Asakian4
2.1.1Western Himalayish4
2.1.2Bodic5
2.1.2.1Tibetan30
2.1.3Lepcha1
2.1.4Tamangish1
2.3Kiranti1
2.3.1Eastern Kiranti7
2.3.2Southern Kiranti9
2.3.3Central Kiranti4
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang1
3.1Tangut1
3.2Qiangic25
3.3rGyalrongic4
3.3.1rGyalrong8
4Nungic11
5Tujia8
6.1Lolo-Burmese3
6.1.1Burmish47
6.1.2Loloish4
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish41
Nusu (Central/Zhizhiluo)lia̱³¹#623 PTB *s/m-l(y)a-t ‘TONGUE’MesorootsPTani *rjo ‘TONGUE’Allofams1a #621 PTB *m/s-lay ⪤ *s-ley ‘TONGUE’1b #623 PTB *s/m-l(y)a-t ‘TONGUE’1c #625 PTB *s-lyam ‘TONGUE / LICK / FLAME’1d #628 PTB *s-lyaːw ‘LICK / TONGUE’1e #629 PTB *m/s/g-lyak ‘LICK / TONGUE’ lia̱ʔ⁵³ ‘lick’Dai 89 NusA: 2301.
6.1.2.2Central Loloish41
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish26
6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish2
6.2Naxi7
7Karenic6
8Bai5
9.0.1Old Chinese4
9.0.3Modern Chinese1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #629,
*m/s/g-lyak ‘LICK / TONGUE’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/629Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC#211
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-629,
title = {{*m/s/g-lyak 'LICK / TONGUE'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #629},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/629}
}