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#175 PTB *s-yak HARD / DIFFICULT (provisional)

Reconstructed mesoroots below:

PNN *jek HARD

Jingpho yak ‘difficult’ is evidently a borrowing from Tai (cf. Proto-Tai *jaak), since PTB *‑k regularly becomes Jingpho ‑ʔ.

rn	analysis	lgid	reflex	gloss	language	grpid	grpno	grp	genetic	citation	srcabbr	srcid
242558	p,175	270	ta◦sak	hard	Ao (Chungli)	63	1.3.1	Central Naga (Ao Group)	1	Marrison 67 Naga	GEM-CNL
78855	175	161	jek	hard	*Northern Naga	12	1.7.2	Northern Naga/Konyakian	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
148794	175,m	435	sek bu	expensive	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
148791	175,m,m	435	sek ok bu	hard	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
148792	175,m,m,m,m	435	sek ok kaŋ ko bu	vigorous	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
239843	175,m	429	sek◦bü	dear (expensive)	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	Marrison 67 Naga	GEM-CNL
239966	175	429	siek	difficult	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	Marrison 67 Naga	GEM-CNL
148795	175	435	siek	difficult	Chang	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
148790	175	1632	tiak	hard	Wancho	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
148789	175,m	1632	tsak u	hard	Wancho	85	1.7.2.2	Konyak-Chang	1	French 83	WTF-PNN	501
399945	175	1842	ja³³	difficult	Jinuo	47	6.1.2.2	Central Loloish	1	Huang and Dai 92 TBL	TBL	1067.44
224830	175	696	ja³³	difficult	Jinuo	47	6.1.2.2	Central Loloish	1	Sun H 91 ZMYY	ZMYYC	879.34
301532	175	700	jɑ³³	difficult	Jinuo (Youle)	47	6.1.2.2	Central Loloish	1	Gai 86	JZ-Jinuo
30964	175	475	ʔěk	straits, difficulties	Chinese (Old)	53	9.0.1	Old Chinese	0	Matisoff 83 TIL	JAM-TIL	70

Chinese comparandum

阸/阨 OC *ʔěk ~ *ʔěg, GSR #844g-h ‘defile, narrow pass; straits, difficulties’; Schuessler 2007:223 *rêkh ~ *ʔêkh; Mand. è ~ ài.
隘 OC *ʔěk ~ *ʔěg, GSR #849h ‘defile, narrow pass; in straits, distress’; B & S 2011: *qˁ‹r›ik {qˁ‹r›[i]k}; Mand. è ~ ài.

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See Matisoff 1983 (“Translucent insights”) #70.