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Copulate

It should come as no surprise that verbs meaning COPULATE are closely associated with notions of LOVE and DESIRE. Most etyma in this chapter have a semantic range which encompasses both the physical act of love and its emotional concomitant. At least one root makes an overt connection between COPULATE and PENIS (cf. #548 PTB *s-nyak ⪤ *s-nik PENIS / COPULATE, above). Innumerable euphemisms for the act of sexual congress occur, but most of these are best treated in a separate study devoted to verbs. Typical verbs extended to a sexual sense include: PUSH (Karbi dòy ‘push’, che-dōy ‘copulate’); DO (Jingpho ‘do, make, form, fashion; be guilty of illicit intercourse’); MEET (Jingpho khrúm ‘meet, converge; have sexual intercourse’), etc.

Reconstructions 15

*ŋ-(w)aːyCOPULATE / MAKE LOVE / LOVE / GENTLE140 · PTB #1160 · 73 reflexes
*r/m/d/s-gaCOPULATE / LOVE / WANT141 · PTB #1646 · 154 reflexes
*m-dza-kLOVE142 · PTB #1643 · 23 reflexes
*kri(k/ŋ)LOVE / COPULATE143 · PTB #1645 · 22 reflexes
*ləw-kCOPULATE144 · PTB #1154 · 27 reflexes · exemplary
*duk ⪤ *tuLOVE / DESIRE / WANT145 · PTB #3476 · 24 reflexes
*ywaCOPULATE146 · PTB #3470 · 12 reflexes
*yaŋLOVE / DESIRE / COPULATE147 · PTB #3475 · 20 reflexes
*m-brelCOPULATE / CONNECT148 · PTB #3473 · 12 reflexes
*m-ba(k/ŋ)COPULATE / LOVE / WOMB149 · PTB #1359 · 15 reflexes
*(k/h)uŋLOVE / COPULATE150 · NEIA #3474 · 7 reflexes
*(t)siCOPULATE / LOVE152 · PTB #3494 · 15 reflexes
*laCOPULATE / LOVE154 · PTB #3472 · 2 reflexes
*sawLOVE155 · PTB #3477 · 9 reflexes
*wotCOPULATE1480 · PTk #7092 · 2 reflexes · provisional