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STEDT #688

*g-wa-t

BITE / CHEW
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlewaprefixginitialwrhymea-tsuffixtcoverL · VT

Connections

HPTB*g-wa-t ‘bite / chew’p. 460

Notes

This root is undoubtedly related to #632 PTB *s/p-wa TOOTH.

Reflexes & cognates38 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)4

*Tibeto-Burmang-wa-t ‘bite / chew’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 618

1.1“North Assam”1

1.7.1.1Bodo7

Bodoód v‘bite’Bhat 68 Boro
Bodowat ⪤ ot ‘bite’Benedict 72 STC: 424
Dimasawai v‘bite’Marrison 67 Naga
Kokborokwa v.‘bite’Tripuri 88
Kokborokwa ‘bite’Tripuri 88

1.7.3.1Jingpho6

Jingphogəprefix◦wá ‘bite’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 316
Jingphogəprefix◦wa ⪤ kəprefix◦wa ⪤ wa ‘bite’Benedict 72 STC: 424
Jingphokă¹prefix wa⁵⁵ ‘bite’Liu 84
Jingphokaprefix◦wa ‘bite’Matisoff 87 BP
Jingphokəprefix◦wá ‘bite’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 316
Jingpho¹gəprefix³wa v.‘chew’Weidert 87 TBTo: 266

6.1.2Loloish2

*Loloish(g)wa² v.‘chew’Weidert 87 TBTo: 266

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish7

Nusu (Central)uɑ⁵³ ‘chew’Sun J 86 Nusu
Nusu (Southern)ɦo⁵⁵ ‘chew’Sun J 86 Nusu

6.2Naxi3

Na (Yongning)v˧v˧ v.‘chew; to chew the cud’Michaud 06 NaLaze
Naxi (Eastern)v³³ ‘chew’He 85

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #688, *g-wa-t ‘BITE / CHEW’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/688
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC#424, HPTB p.460
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-688,
  title  = {{*g-wa-t 'BITE / CHEW'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #688},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/688}
}