STEDT #772
*dyaŋ
PALM / SOLE
Reconstruction analysis
handledeŋinitialdrhymeeŋcoverT · N
Intermediate reconstructions
Tamangish*ᴬtʰiŋ ‘PALM (HAND)’
Chinese comparandum
掌 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
2.1.2Bodic1
Kaikelhā#695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’MesorootsPTani *lak ‘HAND / ARM’PNN *glək ‘HAND’PLB *lakᴸ ‘HAND’PL *lakᴸ ‘HAND’Allofams1 #377 PTB *lak ⪤ *C-yak ‘ARM / HAND / WING’1a #695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’1b #696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’1c #699 PTB *d-yak ‘HAND / ARM / LEAF’1d #700 PTB *dak ‘ARM / HAND’1e #702 PTB *g-yak ‘ARM / HAND / CUBIT’1f #705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’1g #350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’1h #375 PTB *ya ‘LEG / FOOT’1i #888 PTB *d-ya OR *g-ya ‘FOOT’◦namorpheme◦jing ‘palm of hand’Hale 73 CSD: 66
2.1.4Tamangish5
Tamang (Sahu)yaː#696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’MesorootsPKC *yak ‘ARMPIT’TGTM *ᴬʰjaː ‘HAND’Allofams1 #377 PTB *lak ⪤ *C-yak ‘ARM / HAND / WING’1a #695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’1b #696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’1c #699 PTB *d-yak ‘HAND / ARM / LEAF’1d #700 PTB *dak ‘ARM / HAND’1e #702 PTB *g-yak ‘ARM / HAND / CUBIT’1f #705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’1g #350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’1h #375 PTB *ya ‘LEG / FOOT’1i #888 PTB *d-ya OR *g-ya ‘FOOT’◦tʰiŋ ‘palm of hand’Taylor 72 TmVo: 2.50
Thakali (Tukche)ja#696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’MesorootsPKC *yak ‘ARMPIT’TGTM *ᴬʰjaː ‘HAND’Allofams1 #377 PTB *lak ⪤ *C-yak ‘ARM / HAND / WING’1a #695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’1b #696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’1c #699 PTB *d-yak ‘HAND / ARM / LEAF’1d #700 PTB *dak ‘ARM / HAND’1e #702 PTB *g-yak ‘ARM / HAND / CUBIT’1f #705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’1g #350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’1h #375 PTB *ya ‘LEG / FOOT’1i #888 PTB *d-ya OR *g-ya ‘FOOT’-tʰin ‘palm (hand)’Hari 71a ThVo: 2.A.53
2.3.4Western Kiranti1
9Sinitic2
9.0.1Old Chinese3
9.0.2Middle Chinese1
9.0.3Modern Chinese1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #772,
*dyaŋ ‘PALM / SOLE’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/772Data: 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}
}