STEDT #667

*tsyin

VAGINA / CLITORIS / MOUTH / LIP

Reconstruction analysis

handletšininitialtšrhymeincoverTS · N

Notes

This etymon, with final dental nasal, seems so far to be relatively rare; yet its occurrence in widely separated languages like Jingpho, Meithei, and Chepang require us to set it up for PTB. Like #3589 PTB *dzyuk ⪤ *tsyuk VULVA / VAGINA / MOUTH / LIP, #686 PTB *si(ŋ/k) MOUTH / LIP, #1349 PTB *si(ŋ/k) VAGINA, the semantic range of the present etymon includes both VAGINA and MOUTH/LIP; but all of these etyma, despite their phonosemantic similarity, may well be independent.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.4Meithei8

Meitheichim◦ban#453 PTB *ban ‘MOUTH / LIP’ ‘lip’Note the optional assimilation of the medial consonants.Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheichin ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheichin◦bân#453 PTB *ban ‘MOUTH / LIP’ ‘lip’Matisoff 87 BP

Meitheicin ‘mouth’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.7

Meitheicin◦ban#453 PTB *ban ‘MOUTH / LIP’ ‘lip’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.9

Meitheiməkhathəŋbəmorpheme cin◦ban#453 PTB *ban ‘MOUTH / LIP’ ‘lower lip’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.9.2

Meitheiməthəkthəŋbəmorpheme cin◦ban#453 PTB *ban ‘MOUTH / LIP’ ‘upper lip’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.9.1

Meitheiməmorpheme◦cin ‘beak / bill’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.9.3

1.7.3.1Jingpho10

Jingphojìn ‘vagina’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-bāwmorpheme ‘nymphae clitoris’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-dì#1352 PTB *s/m-ti ‘CLITORIS / VAGINA’ ‘vagina’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-hkū#820 PTB *(g/k)uŋ ‘HOLE / ORIFICE / INNER PART’PNN *koːŋ ‘EMPTY’TGTM *ᴮkʰuŋ ‘HOLE / PIT’PKir *goŋ ‘HEART’PLB *guŋ² ⪤ *kuŋ² ‘HOLLOW / HOLE / EMPTY’PL *koŋ¹ ‘INSIDE HOUSE’ ‘vaginal canal’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-hkyí#572 PTB *kləy ‘BODY DIRT / EXCREMENT’PKC *mik-khlii ‘TEARS’PCN *a-khləjʔ ‘FECES, EXCREMENT’TGTM *ᴬkli ‘FECES,SHIT’PKar *khrejᴮ ‘BODY DIRT’ ‘mucus of vagina’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-kāumorpheme ‘orifice of vagina’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-mūn#363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’MesorootsPKC *mul ⪤ *hmul ‘HAIR (body) / FUR / WOOL’Allofams1 #363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’1a #1429 PTB *s-mu-t ‘BEARD / FACIAL HAIR / HAIR’1b #2058 PTB *mum ‘CHIN / BEARD’ ‘female pubic hair’Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-sìnmorpheme ‘nymphae clitoris’Literally “heart of vulva”.Matisoff 87 BP

Jingphojìn-tī#1352 PTB *s/m-ti ‘CLITORIS / VAGINA’ ‘labia pudenda’Matisoff 87 BP

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang1

Chepang (Eastern)cin ‘clitoris’Caughley 90 CheQ: 10.4.4

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #667, *tsyin ‘VAGINA / CLITORIS / MOUTH / LIP’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/667

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

References: cf. WOMB/PLACENTA

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-667,
  title  = {{*tsyin 'VAGINA / CLITORIS / MOUTH / LIP'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #667},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/667}
}