Conflated cognate sets in the STEDT II — ‘to spit’

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26 juin 2019

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Laurent Sagart, « Conflated cognate sets in the STEDT II — ‘to spit’ », Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, ID : 10670/1.n2vr0d


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This post continues a previous one on the ST word for ‘excrement’ (here) as represented in the STEDT database. The STEDT set #601 PTB *m/s-tu:k SPIT (here) is another example of a STEDT etymon conflating two phonetically and semantically similar cognate sets. One has vowel *u (column I in the below table), the other has *a (column II). The form with *u is reflected in e.g. Lushai thuk ‘to spit’, Lepcha tyuk id. Dulong duʔ⁵⁵ ‘vomit’; the etymon with *a by Lushai chhâk ‘to spit’, Atong dak id...

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