Skip to content

STEDT

Kinship Terms, Ethnonyms, Social Roles › Kinship Terms › Same generation

STEDT #6450

*me

SISTER (elder)

Proto-Tani · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

initialmrhymee

Reflexes & cognates27 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.1.1Tani1

*Tanime ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 HCST: 361

1.1.1.1Western Tani24

Apataniaprefix-mi ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 HCST

Apataniaprefix-mi ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniaprefix-ñiː ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 HCST

Bengniaprefix-ñiː ‘elder sister’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniaprefix-ñiː ‘father's sister’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniaprefix-ñiː bɯr-mɯː#6274 PTani *bɯr-məː ‘SISTER (younger)’ ‘relative (female)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokaraprefix meː n‘elder sister’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0227.24

Bokaraprefix meː bɯr məː#6274 PTani *bɯr-məː ‘SISTER (younger)’ n‘sisters’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0236.24

Bokaraprefix-meː ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 HCST

Bokaraprefix-meː ‘elder sister’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokaraprefix-meː ‘sister (elder)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokar Lhobaaprefix meː ‘sister (elder)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 334.51

Galoaprefix◦ɲi n:kin.‘elder sister’GLDC 09 Galo

Galoaprefix◦ɲi n:kin.‘sister (elder)’GLDC 09 Galo

Galoaprefix◦ɲi ‘sister (elder)’Das Gupta 63 Gal

Galoaprefix◦ɲi-aprefix◦bɨɨmorpheme n.‘eldest sister’GLDC 09 Galo

Galoaprefix◦ɲi-aprefix◦bɨɨmorpheme n.‘sister (eldest)’GLDC 09 Galo

Galoaprefix◦ɲi-kaimorpheme n.‘eldest sister’GLDC 09 Galo

Galoaprefix◦ɲi-kaimorpheme n.‘sister (eldest)’GLDC 09 Galo

Miri, Hillaprefix◦ɲi ‘paternal aunt, elder sister’Simon 76 Miri

Nishingaprefix◦nyi~iprefix◦nyi ‘sister (elder)’Das Gupta 69 Daf

Nishingiprefix◦nyi ‘sister (elder)’Das Gupta 69 Daf

Taginaprefix◦nyi ‘father's sister’Das Gupta 83 Tag

Taginaprefix◦nyi burme#6274 PTani *bɯr-məː ‘SISTER (younger)’ ‘sister’Das Gupta 83 Tag

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani3

Damuʔaprefix-niː ‘father's sister’Sun J 93 Tani

Milangaprefix◦ɲi ‘father's sister’Tayeng 76 Mil

Mishing [Miri]əprefix◦nyi ‘aunt (father's sister), mother-in-law’Benedict 72 STC: 316

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6450, *me ‘SISTER (elder)’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6450

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

References: JS-HCST: 156

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-6450,
  title  = {{*me 'SISTER (elder)'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6450},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6450}
}