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STEDT #790

*tsəw

SKIN
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlešoinitialšrhymeocoverS · V

Notes

This tentatively reconstructed root is largely restricted to the final syllables of Loloish compounds, with a possible cognate from Kulung.

Baima ʃhɑ⁵³ pɑ⁵³ ‘skin’ (Sun 1991, “Body Parts Questionnaire”) and Tamang (Sahu) grahm-pa-sa ‘lip’ and sya ‘skin’ (Taylor et al. 1972: 1.28, 2.24) look suspiciously like Baima shɑ¹³ kɛ³⁵ ‘flesh, meat’ and Tamang (Sahu) ra sya ‘meat’, suggesting that these syllables derive from #34 PTB *sya-n FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL, rather than from the present etymon.

Several forms with initial palatal sibilants are assigned by W. T. French to PNN *C̬-kʰuar, which we in turn assign to #593 PTB *kur ⪤ *kwar SKIN.

Reflexes & cognates15 reflexes · 2 subgroups

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish13

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #790, *tsəw ‘SKIN’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/790
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-790,
  title  = {{*tsəw 'SKIN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #790},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/790}
}