STEDT Etymon #1633
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#1633 PTB *bu CHILD |
This etymon means CHILD. It is included here because of the important WT form bu‑snod ‘womb’ (“child-vessel”). Care is required to distinguish this etymon from reflexes of #1733 PTB *r/m‑bu ⪤ *pru NEST / WOMB / PLACENTA, above. The Tibetan-Chinese comparison is due to Coblin (1986:164).
| rn | analysis | lgid | reflex | gloss | gfn | language | grpid | grpno | grp | genetic | citation | srcabbr | srcid | rn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76594 | 1633 | 168 | buʔ | boy / servant | *Sino-Tibetan | 1 | 0 | Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions) | 0 | Coblin 86 | WSC-SH | 47 | 0 | |
| 127121 | 1633,471 | 1426 | pui◦net | womb | Spiti | 24 | 2.1.2.1 | Tibetan | 1 | Bodh 91 | CB-SpitiQ | 10.4.8 | 0 | |
| 116419 | 1633,471 | 1568 | bu-snod | womb | Tibetan (Written) | 24 | 2.1.2.1 | Tibetan | 1 | Matisoff 87 BP | JAM-Ety | 0 | ||
| 441373 | 1633 | 478 | buk | servant, male slave | Chinese (Old) | 53 | 9.0.1 | Old Chinese | 0 | Coblin 86 | WSC-SH | 164 | 1 |
僕 OC *b’uk/*b’ôk, GSR #1211b ‘servant, groom, male slave’; Li 1971: *buk; Baxter 1992: *bok; Mand. pú.
The vowel correspondence is regular, as OC *‑uk (Li)/*‑ok (Baxter) normally corresponds to PTB *‑uk, as in ‘bend /crooked’ PTB *guk~*kuk, OC 曲 *khjuk (Li)/*kh(r)jok (Baxter); Mand. qū, qǔ. However, the presence of coda *‑k in the Chinese form is unexplained.
Peiros and Starostin (1996.1:57 #203) relate this Chinese word to Tibetan phrug ‘child’ and Burmese pauk ‘young of animals’.
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