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STEDT #810

*bi

NOSE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlebiinitialbrhymeicoverP · V

Notes

Chinese comparandum

OC *bʼi̯əd, GSR #521c ‘nose’; B & S 2011: *m-bit-s {m-[b]i[t]-s}; Mand. .

Reflexes & cognates62 reflexes · 8 subgroups

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish15

6.1.2.2Central Loloish25

Ahibi²² v.‘nose to fingertip’Luo 90: 13.4.1

8Bai5

Bai (Dali)pi fvmorpheme swmorpheme 732 ‘nose’Dell 81: 317
Bai (Dali)pi³¹ fv̩̄⁴⁴morpheme tsi³³morpheme ‘nose’Xu 84 Bai
Bai (Dali)pi³¹fv⁴⁴morphemetsi⁴⁴morpheme ‘nose’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 240.35
Bai (Dali)pi⁷ fv̩³morpheme sɿ²morpheme ‘nose’Dell 81: pp.150-169
Bai (Jianchuan)pĩ̱⁴² ɕæ̃⁵⁵morpheme tsɿ³³morpheme jɯ̱̃⁴²morpheme ‘nose bridge’Zhao 90: 3.5.1

9.0.1Old Chinese4

Chinese (Old/Mid)bʻi̯əd/bʻyi ‘nose’Chou 72: 521c
Chinese (Old/Mid)bʼi̯əd/bʼji- ‘nose’Karlgren 57 GSR: 521c
Chinese (Old)bjiədh ‘nose ⪤ sneeze’Coblin 86: 113
Chinese (Old)mprefix-bit-ssuffix {m-[b]i[t]-s} ‘nose’BaxterSagart 2011: 83

9.0.2Middle Chinese2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #810, *bi ‘NOSE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/810
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-810,
  title  = {{*bi 'NOSE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #810},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/810}
}