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STEDT #7777

*a-luŋ

CENTER / MIDDLE

Proto-Central Naga (Ao group)

Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 2 subgroups

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)15

*Central Nagaaprefix-luŋ ‘CENTER, MIDDLE’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.230

*Aotprefix-juŋ ‘CENTER, MIDDLE’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.286

Ao (Chungli)tə²prefix-juŋ² n.‘center, middle’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.286

Ao (Chungli)tprefix◦iong ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tiprefix◦yung◦kosuffix ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)thiprefix◦juŋ ‘center [centre]’Coupe revises this to tijuŋ (/tə-juŋ/) (p.c. Daniel Bruhn, 2013).Coupe 07 Ao

Lotha Nagao¹prefix-loŋ¹-o¹suffix n.‘center, middle’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.230

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦long◦osuffix ‘center’Murry 78: 15

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦long◦osuffix ‘middle’Murry 78: 73

Lotha Nagaōprefix◦lōŋ ‘center’Acharya 75

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦nung◦osuffix ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha NagaYiNg#320 PTB *s-nyuŋ ⪤ *s-m-yuŋ ⪤ *s-m-yuw ‘FINGER’PKC *yuŋ ‘FINGER / TOE / ROOT’PCN *m-juŋ ‘DIGIT (FINGER / TOE)’PTk *juŋ ‘ROOT’◦rosuffix◦loNg◦osuffix ‘middle finger’Nienu 90 LotQ: 7.1.2

Sangtamaprefix◦long◦lasuffix ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüafumorpheme◦lung ‘center’Kumar 73 Yim: 36

Yimchungrüphumorpheme◦lung ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic4

Tangkhulaprefix◦lung◦lasuffix ‘middle’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulruŋ ‘middle’Bhat 69 TNV: 92

Tangkhulruŋ-homorpheme ‘finger (middle)’Matisoff 87 BP

Tangkhulruŋ◦hómorpheme ‘middle finger’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #7777, *a-luŋ ‘CENTER / MIDDLE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/7777

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: PCN #230

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-7777,
  title  = {{*a-luŋ 'CENTER / MIDDLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #7777},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/7777}
}