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STEDT #737

*s/k-la

ARM / HAND / WING
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlesyainitialsyrhymea ⪤ tsyacoverS · WTS

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*khlaa ‘WING’PKC #1309

Connections

Allofams
HPTB*tsyəw ‘hand’p. 199

Notes

Note the “brightening” of the vowel from *-a to -i in Tangut.

Reflexes & cognates20 reflexes · 6 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin2

*Chinkhlaa ‘WING’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309
*Kukibmorpheme-sgla ‘wing’Weidert 87 TBTo: 481

1.2.1.1Northern Chin7

Kuki-Chinlha ‘wing (of bird)’Haokip 98: 6.1.9
Paitekha ‘wing, soul’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309
Sizangaprefix htā ‘wing’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309
Thadohlàa ‘wing’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309
Tiddimkhaː³ ‘wing’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309

1.2.2Central Chin6

Lai (Hakha)thlǎa ‘wing, quill, spirit’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309
Lushai [Mizo]thlà n‘wing (of bird), a pinion, a quill’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309

1.2.3Maraic2

Lakher [Mara]māmorpheme-thlāw ‘wing; fin’Matisoff 87 BP
Lakher [Mara]māmorpheme-thlāw ‘wing’VanBik 09 PKC: 1309

3.1Tangut3

Tangut [Xixia]ndzwɪ² ‘wing’The immediate precursor of this form seems to have been something like *m-tswa. This seems to be a legitimate doublet of lhi², from *s-la. These two words are written with distinct characters (Matisoff 1985:436).Sofronov 97

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #737, *s/k-la ‘ARM / HAND / WING’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/737
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: incl 738
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-737,
  title  = {{*s/k-la 'ARM / HAND / WING'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #737},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/737}
}