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STEDT #687

*s-muk

MOUTH
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*muk ‘mouth’p. 537

Notes

It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the reflexes of this root and #467 PTB *s-muːr MOUTH / LIP / HOLD IN MOUTH / CHEW / FACE / GILLS. In general, reflexes with front, mid or centralized vowels (i, e, ø, ə) are deemed to belong to the latter etymon.

The Chepang forms for ‘snout’ with final nasals have also been assigned to this root.

Reflexes & cognates38 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin2

Tiddimmuːk³ ‘beak; lip’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1154
Tiddimmuːk⁴ ‘mouth, lips’Luce 85: O.16

1.2.3Maraic1

Xongsaimuʔ² ‘mouth, lips’Luce 85: O.16

2.2Newar2

Newarmhu◦tumorpheme-simorpheme ‘lip’Matisoff 87 BP
Newarmhu◦tumorpheme◦simorpheme ‘lip’Shakya 89: 3.9

3.3rGyalrongic6

Ergong (Danba)ɦamorpheme mo ‘mouth’Sun H 91 ErDQ: 3.7
Ergong (Daofu)ʔmo damorpheme phamorpheme tɕhumorpheme v.‘gape / open mouth’Dai 89 Daof: 3.7.15
Ergong (Daofu)ʔmo nɑŋmorpheme namorpheme skhemorpheme v.‘hold in mouth’Dai 89 Daof: 3.7.14

6.1.2.2Central Loloish14

Lahu (Black)mɔ²¹qɔ³³#473 PTB *kwaŋ ‘MOUTH’ ‘mouth’The second syllable of Lahu ‘mouth’ occurs in several other words làʔ=tɔ-qɔ ‘palm of the hand’, mə̂-qɔ ‘lip’, mû-lɔ̀ʔ-qɔ ‘daytime; afternoon’, and is glossed ‘noun formative of elusive meaning’. For now, however, we are assigning it to the present root.Sun H 91 ZMYY: 242.33

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #687, *s-muk ‘MOUTH’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/687
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-687,
  title  = {{*s-muk 'MOUTH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #687},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/687}
}