STEDT
Adjectival Verbs  ›  Adjectives and attributives  ›  Object Qualities  ›  General - form
STEDT #639

*mwəy

FINE / DELICATE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Chinese comparandum

微 OC *mi̯wər, GSR #584a-e ‘small, minute’; Baxter 1992: *mjɨj; B & S 2011: *məj; Mand. wēi.

Reflexes & cognates8 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanmwəy adj.‘minute / small’Chou 72: 584d-e
*Tibeto-Burmanmwəy ‘fine / delicate’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 603

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)mweʼ ‘fine, delicate’Benedict 76 WBur

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)mi̯wər/mywəi adj.‘minute / small’Chou 72: 584d-e

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #639, *mwəy ‘FINE / DELICATE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/639
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p.201
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-639,
  title  = {{*mwəy 'FINE / DELICATE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #639},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/639}
}