STEDT
STEDT #772

*dyaŋ

PALM / SOLE

Reconstruction analysis

handledeŋinitialdrhymecoverT · N

Intermediate reconstructions

Tamangish*ᴬtʰiŋ ‘PALM (HAND)’

Chinese comparandum

OC *t̑i̯ɑng GSR #725j ‘palm, sole’; Li 1971: (*tjangx); Baxter 1992 #231: *tjangʔ (#231); B & S 2011: *[k.t]aŋʔ1; Mand. zhǎng.
[ZJH]

1 I do not understand why Baxter & Sagart (2011) reconstruct a cluster *k.t- instead of plain *t- here. Their notation with a period (as opposed to a hyphen as in *k-t-) indicates that they have no evidence for a morphological prefix *k-, but I don’t see any motivation for reconstructing a purely phonological pre-initial element *k.

Reflexes & cognates14 reflexes · 8 subgroups

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

9Sinitic2

Chinese (Hanzi) ‘palm of the hand’BaxterSagart 2011: 3784
Chinese (GSR #)0725j ‘palm of the hand’BaxterSagart 2011: 3784

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)t̑i̯ɑng/tśi̯ɑng: ‘palm of the hand’Karlgren 57 GSR: 725j
Chinese (Old)k.taŋʔ {[k.t]aŋʔ} ‘palm of the hand’BaxterSagart 2011: 3784
Chinese (Old)tjangʔ ‘palm (of the hand)’Baxter 92: 231

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Chinese (Middle)tsyangX ‘palm of the hand’BaxterSagart 2011: 3784

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Chinese (Mandarin)zhǎng ‘palm of the hand’BaxterSagart 2011: 3784

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #772, *dyaŋ ‘PALM / SOLE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/772
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-772,
  title  = {{*dyaŋ 'PALM / SOLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #772},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/772}
}