*(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t)
Connections
- 2 #6713 *(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t) ‘FIRE / BURN / SHINE / BRIGHT / LIGHT / WHITE’
- 2a #2152 *bʷar ⪤ *pʷar ‘BURN / FIRE / KINDLE / ROAST’
- 2b #5683 *hwa(ː)r ⪤ *yar ‘WHITE / YELLOW / BRIGHT / SHINE’
- 2c #4513 *hur ⪤ *hwar ⪤ *⪤ *hir ⪤ *hyar ‘SWEAT’
- 2d #694 *hul ⪤ *hwa(ː)l ‘HEAT UP / BURN’
- 2e #5395 *hwa(l/r) ‘FIRE / SHINE’
- 2f #3609 *hwam ‘BURN / SHINE’
- 2g #5518 *hwaŋ ‘SHINE / BRIGHT / YELLOW’
- 2h #2271 *hwa(n/t) ‘SHINE / LIGHT’
- 2i #165 *b/s-wa ‘WHITE / YELLOW / BRIGHT’
Notes
This etymon has an impressive number of variants, motivating an extreme pan-allofamic formula like #6713 PTB *(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t) FIRE / BURN / SHINE / BRIGHT / LIGHT / WHITE. The sub-roots fall into several categories: some of the reflexes derive from prototypes with final *liquids; others point to earlier final *nasals; while still others derive from *open syllables. For convenience’s sake, we will present the allofams in that order.
The semantic developments of this root are also quite varied, ranging from FIRE / BURN / KINDLE / ROAST to SHINE / LIGHT / BRIGHT to HEAT UP / SWEAT to WHITE / YELLOW. Less this be thought implausible, cf. Proto-Indo-European *bhel- “shine; flash; burn; shining white and various bright colors” which give us English reflexes including ‘black’, ‘blank’, ‘blanch’, ‘bleak’, ‘bald’, ‘bleach’, ‘blue’, ‘blaze’, ‘blind’, ‘blend’, ‘blond’, ‘blink’, etc. See HPTB 428-430.
Chinese comparandum
皤 OC *bʻwɑ̂r~pwɑ̂r, GSR #195r ‘white’; Schuessler 2007:416 *bâi; B & S 2011: *bˁar {[b]ˁar} ; Mand. pó.
煇 458k S286
韡 571q giwer 煒 571j giwer
Reflexes & cognates1 reflex · 2 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1
9.0.1Old Chinese1
Cite this entry
*(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t) ‘FIRE / BURN / SHINE / BRIGHT / LIGHT / WHITE’.https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6713BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6713,
title = {{*(p/b/h)(w/y)a(ː)(r/l/n/t) 'FIRE / BURN / SHINE / BRIGHT / LIGHT / WHITE'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6713},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6713}
}