*pak

WING / ARM

Notes

This etymon is restricted to the Himalayan region, and seems definitely to be a loan from Indo-Aryan (cf. Skt. pakṣa-, Pali pakkha-.

Reflexes & cognates5 reflexes · 3 subgroups

2.1.1Western Himalayish3

Kanauripəkhəṅ ‘wing’morphemeSharma, D.D. 88 Kn: 58

Pattani [Manchati]pakʰ ‘wing’Sharma, D.D. 82 TH

Pattani [Manchati]pàːkh ‘wing (of bird)’Sharma, S.R. 91 Ma: 6.1.9

2.1.2Bodic1

Tshona (Wenlang)ɕom⁵⁵#731 PTB *g-(t)syəw-k/ŋ ‘WING / HAND’ pek⁵⁵ ‘wing’Note the assimilation of the medial consonants.Lu 86 CuoM

2.1.4Tamangish1

Chantyalpəkhyata ‘wing (of bird)’morphemeNoonan 92: 6.1.9

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #706, *pak ‘WING / ARM’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/706

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-706,
  title  = {{*pak 'WING / ARM'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #706},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/706}
}