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STEDT #806

*bu(k/ŋ)

NOSE / NOSTRIL
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

handlebukinitialbrhymeu((k/ŋ)/coverP · NT

Notes

In several languages including Written Tibetan, this etymon means NOSTRIL rather than NOSE, suggesting that there might be a connection with #6723 PTB *d-(p/b)u-k BELLY / STOMACH / CAVE and #164 PTB *d-puːk BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE.

Reflexes with final -m, as in some Tani languages and Darang, seem to have arisen by assimilation to the labial initial.

Apatani has developed a high front vowel in this root, still another example of the variation between -u- and -i- in the environment of labials.

Reflexes & cognates174 reflexes · 23 subgroups

1.1“North Assam”4

Sulung [Puroik]pɔk³³ ‘nose’Sun H 93 SulQ
Sulung [Puroik]pɔk³³kua³³morpheme ‘snot’Sun H 93 SulQ
Sulung [Puroik]pɔk³³kua³³morpheme ‘snot’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 278.52

1.1.1.1Western Tani51

Apatanipím-bu ‘nostril’Sun J 93 Tani
Apatanipin-ǰãmorpheme ‘bridge of nose’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarpum-loŋmorpheme ‘bridge of nose’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokar Lhobapumloŋmorpheme ‘bridge of nose’Sun H 80 MLD
Galo`pumcimorpheme n.‘nostril (left)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galo`pumkammorpheme n.‘booger’GLDC 09 Galo
Galo`pumsi#189 PTB *si ‘WATER’PTani *si ‘WATER’-pumlaamorpheme n.‘nose water’GLDC 09 Galo
Galo`puŋgɨɨmorpheme n.‘bridge (of the nose)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galo`puŋgɨɨmorpheme n.‘nose bridge’GLDC 09 Galo
Galo`puŋkoomorpheme n.‘nose piercing’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopumduumorpheme n.‘nose (upturned)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopumjakmorpheme adj.‘split (nose)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopumtupmorpheme n.‘nose (tip)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopumtuumorpheme n.‘nose (short)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopumtuumorpheme adj.‘short (nose)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopuŋkiimorpheme n.‘nose (pointy)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galopuŋkiimorpheme adj.‘pointy (nose)’GLDC 09 Galo

1.1.2Deng11

2.1.2Bodic8

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti22

2.3.2Southern Kiranti13

3.3.1rGyalrong1

6.1.2.2Central Loloish9

7Karenic12

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #806, *bu(k/ŋ) ‘NOSE / NOSTRIL’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/806
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-806,
  title  = {{*bu(k/ŋ) 'NOSE / NOSTRIL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #806},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/806}
}