1.0 The Body > 1.5 Limbs, Joints, and Body Measures > 1.5.5 Palm/Sole

#772 PTB *dyaŋ PALM / SOLE

Reconstructed mesoroots below:
rnanalysislgidreflexglossgfnlanguagegrpidgrpnogrpgeneticcitationsrcabbrsrcidrn
514584770,7721062ri◦dengpalm (of hand)Mikir [Karbi]141.5Mikir [Karbi]1Marrison 67 NagaGEM-CNL1870
516214695,m,772721lhā◦na◦jingpalm of handKaike222.1.2Bodic1Hale 73 CSDAH-CSDPN660
177189772172ᴬtʰiŋpalm (hand)*TGTM232.1.4Tamangish1Mazaudon 94 TheseMM-Thesis4890
1262447721455¹tʰiŋpalm of the hand (fingersnTamang (Risiangku)232.1.4Tamangish1Mazaudon 91 TamQMM-TamRisQ6.1.7.10
1771877721456¹tʰiŋpalm (without fingers)Tamang (Risiangku)232.1.4Tamangish1Mazaudon 94 TheseMM-Thesis4890
123061696,7721464yaː◦tʰiŋpalm of handTamang (Sahu)232.1.4Tamangish1Taylor 72 TmVoSIL-Sahu2.500
68087696,7721531ja-tʰinpalm (hand)Thakali (Tukche)232.1.4Tamangish1Hari 71a ThVoSIL-Thak2.A.530
143755707,772643pleŋ◦teŋpalmHayu302.3.4Western Kiranti1Michailovsky 91 KrBM-PK71360
6129367722207palm of the handChinese (Hanzi)529Sinitic1BaxterSagart 2011WHBLS-201137840
60727477222110725jpalm of the handChinese (GSR #)529Sinitic1BaxterSagart 2011WHBLS-201137840
169524772,772481t̑i̯ɑng/tśi̯ɑng:palm of the handChinese (Old/Mid)539.0.1Old Chinese0Karlgren 57 GSRGSR725j0
6032007722210k.|taŋʔ {[k.t]aŋʔ}palm of the handChinese (Old)539.0.1Old Chinese0BaxterSagart 2011WHBLS-201137840
294534772471tjangʔpalm (of the hand)Chinese (Old)539.0.1Old Chinese0Baxter 92WHB-OC2310
5991267722209tsyangXpalm of the handChinese (Middle)549.0.2Middle Chinese0BaxterSagart 2011WHBLS-201137840
5950527722208zhǎngpalm of the handChinese (Mandarin)559.0.3Modern Chinese0BaxterSagart 2011WHBLS-201137840

Chinese comparandum

掌 OC *t̑i̯ɑng GSR #725j ‘palm, sole’; Li 1971: (*tjangx); Baxter 1992 #231: *tjangʔ (#231); B & S 2011: *[k.t]aŋʔ1; Mand. zhǎng.
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I do not understand why Baxter & Sagart (2011) reconstruct a cluster *k.t‑ instead of plain *t‑ here. Their notation with a period (as opposed to a hyphen as in *k‑t‑) indicates that they have no evidence for a morphological prefix *k‑, but I don’t see any motivation for reconstructing a purely phonological pre-initial element *k.