*pwa²

BORN / BIRTH

Proto-Lolo-Burmese

Reconstruction analysis

handlepwainitialpwrhymeacoverP · V

Notes

This root is solidly established for Lolo-Burmese. The Pa-O (Karenic) form may be a borrowing from Burmese.

Reflexes & cognates9 reflexes · 3 subgroups

6.1.1Burmish5

Achang (Luxi)pa³¹ ‘birth, give (to child)’Dai 85 AcJZ

Burmese (Written)phwâ ‘bear, bring forth’Benedict 76 WBur

Atsi [Zaiwa]vo⁵⁵ ‘birth, give (child)’Zaiwa (1984) treats the labial stop in this etymon as a prefix, so that it reflects an immediate prototype *wa.Xu 84 Zaiwa

Atsi [Zaiwa]vo⁵⁵ v.‘birth, give to’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1620.30

Atsi [Zaiwa]vo⁵⁵ ‘birth, give’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 774.42

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2

Nusu (Bijiang)phuɔʴ⁵³ ‘birth, give’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 774.45

Nusu (Central)pʰuɔʴ⁵³ ‘birth, give’Sun J 86 Nusu

7Karenic2

Pa-Ophwā ‘birth, give (humans only)’Solnit 89 PaO

Pa-Ophwā ‘born, be’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #98, *pwa² ‘BORN / BIRTH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/98

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-98,
  title  = {{*pwa² 'BORN / BIRTH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #98},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/98}
}