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STEDT #757

*lap

WING / FEATHER
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlelapinitiallrhymeapcoverL · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*lap ‘WING’JS-HCST: 120

Connections

Allofams

Notes

This root is perhaps allofamically related to #786 PTB *s-la LEAF / TEA / FLAT THING.

Chinese comparandum

葉 OC *di̯ɑp, GSR #633d ‘leaf, foliage, generation’; Li 1971: *rap; Baxter 1992 #1037: *ljap; B & S 2011: *l[a]p; Schuessler 2007:562; Mand. yè.

ZJH: The ordinary Chinese word for ‘leaf’ (葉 Mand. yè) is a likely cognate to this PTB root for ‘wing’; the shape-based semantic connection is obvious. Furthermore, Schuessler (2007:562) notes that “In some southern dialects [of Chinese] 葉 also seems to be the word for ‘wing’”. Schuessler compares the Chinese to PTB *lap ‘leaf’ (STC #321). It seems to me that #757 PTB *lap WING / FEATHER ‘wing’ and PTB *lap ‘leaf’ are likely to be in the same word family, and that this Chinese word for ‘leaf’ is cognate.

Reflexes & cognates49 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.1.1Tani1

1.1.1.1Western Tani17

Apataniaprefix-le ‘wing’Sun J 93 Tani
Apataniaprefix-le ‘wing’Sun J 93 Tani
Apatani¹aprefix◦²le (²) ‘wing’Weidert 87 TBTo: 634
Bengnilap ‘wing’Sun J 93 HCST
Bengnilap ‘wing’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokaraprefix lap n‘wing’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0298.24
Bokaraprefix-lap ‘wing’Sun J 93 HCST
Bokaraprefix-lap ‘fin’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokaraprefix-lap ‘wing’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokar Lhobaaprefix lap ‘wing’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 171.51
Bokar Lhobaaprefix◦lap ‘wing’Sun H 80 MLD
Galoaprefix◦lap ‘wing’Das Gupta 63 Gal
Galoˆaprefix◦lab ‘wing’Weidert 87 TBTo: 634
Miri, Hillalmorpheme-lap ‘feather’Simon 76 Miri
Taginlap ‘feather’Das Gupta 83 Tag
Taginlap ‘wing’Das Gupta 83 Tag

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani3

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]lâp-permorpheme ‘fin’Matisoff 87 BP
Damutaːprefix-lap ‘wing’Sun J 93 Tani

2.3Kiranti1

2.3.2Southern Kiranti15

Bantawalap n‘wing’Rai 85 BnDs
Bantawalap ‘feather / wing’Rai 84 BnDc: 43
Bantawalap◦mamorpheme ‘feather’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 64
Chamling-lab◦heprefix◦tuŋ#711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’Allofams16 #711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’16a #710 PTB *dwaŋ ‘CUBIT’ ‘wing’Weidert 87 TBTo: 634
Chamlingla ‘feather, wing’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 64
Chamlinglab, lab◦eprefix◦tung#711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’Allofams16 #711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’16a #710 PTB *dwaŋ ‘CUBIT’ ‘feather, wing’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 64
Chamlinglab◦eprefix◦tung#711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’Allofams16 #711 PTB *dwaŋ ‘WING / HAND’16a #710 PTB *dwaŋ ‘CUBIT’ ‘feather / wing’Winter 85: 22
Kulunglap◦tosuffix ‘wing’Weidert 87 TBTo: 634
Kulunglap◦tosuffix ‘wing’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 64
Kulunglap◦tosuffix ‘wing’Rai 75 Kul
Kulungwa#1603 PTB *w(a/u) ‘BIRD / EGG / WING / FOWL’PKC *waa ‘BIRD’PTk *wa ‘BIRD’◦lam◦mamorpheme ‘feather’Note the assimilation of the medial consonants in Kulung lam ma.Michailovsky 91 Kr: 64

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang1

Magarghārmorpheme◦lāp ‘armpit’Hale 73 CSD: 66

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #757, *lap ‘WING / FEATHER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/757
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-757,
  title  = {{*lap 'WING / FEATHER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #757},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/757}
}