*s-naːŋ

HEAVY / THICK (of liquids) / VISCOUS

Notes

Several Loloish forms (e.g. Lahu Lancang nɛ⁵⁴ ‘thick (porridge)’, Black Lahu nê ~ né ‘chewy, elastic, viscous’, Lisu e⁴⁴nɯ³⁵ ‘turbid / muddy’, Lisu e⁵⁵na̱³³kha³⁵ ‘thick (porridge)’) might be reflexes of this root, although the vowel correspondences seem quite irregular.

Chinese comparandum

瀼 OC *ńi̯ɑng, GSR #730f ‘heavy with dew’; Coblin 86:62 ST *(C)njang > OC *njang; Mand. ráng.
穰 OC *ńi̯ɑng, GSR #730h ‘rich growth (of grain), abundant’; Mand. ráng.
濃 OC *ni̯ung ~ nung, GSR #1005i ‘thick, rich (e.g. of dew)’; Schuessler 2007:404 *nroŋ ~ nôŋ; B & S 2011: (*nˁuŋ); Mand. nóng.
醲 OC *ni̯ung ~ nung, GSR #1005j ‘thick, strong (e.g. of drink)’; Schuessler 2007:404 *nroŋ ~ nôŋ; B & S 2011: (*nˁuŋ); Mand. nóng.

Reflexes & cognates7 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmans-naːŋ ‘heavy / thick (of liquids) / viscous’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 604

1.2.2Central Chin1

Lushai [Mizo]hnaːŋ ‘thick, viscous (of fluids)’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 304

6.1.1Burmish2

Achang (Longchuan)n̥ə³¹ ‘thick (porridge)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1030.28

Achang (Longchuan)n̥ə³¹ ‘thick’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 844.41

9.0.1Old Chinese4

Chinese (Old/Mid)ńi̯ɑng/ńźi̯ɑng ‘heavy with dew’Karlgren 57 GSR: 730f

Chinese (Old/Mid)ńi̯ɑŋ/ńźi̯ɑŋ ‘heavy (with dew)’Chou 72: 730f

Chinese (Old/Mid)ńi̯ɑŋ/ńźi̯ɑŋ ‘rich growth (of grain)’Chou 72: 730h

Chinese (Old/Mid)nuŋ~ńi̯uŋ/nuŋ~ńźi̯uŋ ‘thick / rich (sc. dew)’Chou 72: 1005i

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #698, *s-naːŋ ‘HEAVY / THICK (of liquids) / VISCOUS’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/698

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

References: cf. HPTB p.302

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-698,
  title  = {{*s-naːŋ 'HEAVY / THICK (of liquids) / VISCOUS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #698},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/698}
}