*(b/p)a(ː)y

WOMB / PLACENTA / PREGNANT

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*paːy ‘conceive / pregnant’p. 210

Notes

This root has been identified in the NE Indian Areal Group and Himalayish. The reconstructed rhyme *-ay is directly reflected by the Mru, Tiddim, Mizo, and Chepang reflexes, and indirectly by Written Tibetan and Karbi -e, which are also the regular reflexes of *-ay. See Matisoff 1985a #140 and HPTB pp. 206-219 for many corroborative cognate sets. The Lakher (Mara) word for ‘add; increase’ is tentatively included in this set, since the same association between WOMB/PLACENTA and ADD/INCREASE is found in #679 PTB *tsat WOMB / PLACENTA / NEST.

Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 11 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanpaːy ‘conceive / pregnant’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 606

1.2.1.1Northern Chin3

Tiddimˊpaːi ‘conceive / pregnant’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 140

Tiddimˊpaːi/ˋpaːi v‘conceive / pregnant / carry a child’Henderson 65 TidC

Tiddimˋpaːi ‘conceive / pregnant’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 140

1.2.2Central Chin1

Lushai [Mizo]pǎi ‘conceive / pregnant’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 140

1.3.4Tangkhulic1

Tusomʔɯmorpheme-nɯmorpheme-kəmorpheme-pʰõ ‘conceive’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.126

1.5Mikir [Karbi]2

Mikir [Karbi]oprefix◦so#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’-aprefix◦pe ‘placenta’Matisoff 87 BP

Mikir [Karbi]pe ‘womb’Matisoff 87 BP

1.6Mru1

Mrua⁴prefixbɑi² ‘placenta, afterbirth’Luce 85: Q.73

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Bodopi◦sámorpheme kómorpheme ‘womb’Matisoff 87 BP

1.7.1.2Garo1

Garo (Bangladesh)bi-bilmorpheme ‘womb’Burling 92 GaBa

2.1.2.1Tibetan3

Tibetan (Batang)bi¹³ khõ⁵⁵morpheme ‘womb’Batang khõ⁵⁵ probably means ‘house’ (cf. WT khaŋ-pa ‘house’).Dai 89 Bata: 10.4.8

Tibetan (Batang)bi¹³ tsho⁵³morpheme ‘amniotic fluid’Dai 89 Bata: 10.4.10

Tibetan (Written)be-snabs#805 PTB *s-nap ‘SNOT / NASAL MUCUS’PTani *nap ~ *nop ‘SNOT’PKC *hnap ‘SNOT / MUCUS (nasal)’PTk *nap ‘SNOT’PLB *ʔ-napᴸ ‘SNOT’PL *s-napᴸ ‘MUCUS’ ‘vaginal mucus at childbirth’Matisoff 87 BP

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti3

Limbusāi#1651 PTB *tsyul ⪤ *tsywal ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / UMBILICAL CORD’PKC *tshuul ‘WOMB / UTERUS’◦be-rāmorpheme ‘placenta’Matisoff 87 BP

Limbusāimorpheme◦be◦rāmorpheme ‘placenta’Matisoff 87 BP

Limbusaramorpheme◦phe ‘womb’Michailovsky 89 Lm

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang1

Chepang (Eastern)payʔ ‘placenta’Caughley 90 CheQ: 10.4.11

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #677, *(b/p)a(ː)y ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / PREGNANT’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/677

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

References: cf. HPTB p.210

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-677,
  title  = {{*(b/p)a(ː)y 'WOMB / PLACENTA / PREGNANT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #677},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/677}
}