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STEDT #776

*p(l)a-n ⪤ *p(w)a-n

PALM / SOLE

Reconstruction analysis

handlepw/y/initialp(l)rhymeacoverP · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*lak-pro ‘PALM (of hand)’JS-HCST: 125
Central Naga (Ao Group)*m-ph(w)a ‘FOOT (PART)’PCN #002

Connections

HPTB*pʷa-n ‘palm / sole’pp. 173, 175, 446
HPTB*r-pʷak ‘palm / sole’p. 61

Notes

STC #418 reconstructs *pwa or *bwa. A similar but probably distinct root is #821 PTB *r-pak LEAF / LEAFLIKE PART / FLAT OBJECT, which underlie forms like Mizo kut-phaʔ ‘palm’, ke-phaʔ ‘sole’ and Karbi ri-pak ~ ri-pek ‘palm’, keŋ-pak ‘sole’.

For now, we are treating the Proto-Tani form as a reflex of this root.

Chinese comparandum

OC *b’i̯wo~*pi̯wo, GSR #101f ‘breadth of four fingers’; Schuessler 2007:240 *pa; B & S 2011: *m-pa {m-p(r)a}; Mand. .

Reflexes & cognates60 reflexes · 21 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)7

*Tibeto-Burmanb-wa ‘palm (hand)(1)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 175
*Tibeto-Burmanpa ‘palm (hand)(1)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 175
*Tibeto-Burmanpa (*A) ‘palm (of hand)’Coblin 86: 115
*Tibeto-Burmanpwa ‘palm (hand)(1)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 175
*Tibeto-Burmanpwɑ ‘palm (of hand)’Chou 72: 101f
*Tibeto-Burmanpʷa-n ‘palm / sole’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 608

1NE Indian Areal Group1

*Kuki-Naga-Chinmmorpheme-pha-ssuffix ‘sole (foot)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 361

1.1.1.1Western Tani13

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani6

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)7

*Central Nagamprefix-ph(w)a ‘FOOT (PART)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.002
*Aotprefix-mprefix-phwa ‘FOOT (PART)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.373
Ao (Chungli)tə²prefix-mu³prefixpu¹ n.‘foot (some part)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.373
Lotha Nagam̩¹prefix-phoʔ³ n.‘foot (skin of)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.002
Lotha Nagamprefixpo ‘foot’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtam-¹mɯprefix²pa ‘sole (foot)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 175
Yimchungrüprefix ‘foot’Kumar 73 Yim: 67

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group1

Sema [Sumi]²aprefix²umorpheme²pha ‘palm (hand)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 592

1.7.1.1Bodo3

1.7.2.1Tangsa-Nocte6

Tangsa¹džamorpheme²pha ‘sole (foot)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 361

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5

Khiamngan¹²pa(ʔ)²¹mo̥ŋmorpheme ‘palm (hand)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 358

2.1.4Tamangish3

2.3.4Western Kiranti2

Sunwartamorphemepla ‘palm’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 136
Sunwartamorphemepla ‘palm’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 137

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)bhawà (phawà) ‘palm, sole’Benedict 72 STC: 418

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #776, *p(l)a-n ⪤ *p(w)a-n ‘PALM / SOLE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/776
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC#418
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-776,
  title  = {{*p(l)a-n ⪤ *p(w)a-n 'PALM / SOLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #776},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/776}
}