TB pitke ‘fat, grease, oil’ and PIE *peih̯1- ‘to be fat, be bursting with’

• Tao Pan ^[1]
  1. [1] Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
• Localización: Indogermanische Forschungen, ISSN 0019-7262, Nº. 124, 2019, págs. 265-278
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper investigates the meaning and the etymology of TB pitke. Based on a philological study of Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan parallel texts, the meaning of TB pitke can be determined to be ‘fat, grease, oil’. TB pitke corresponds to Skt. medas- ‘fat’, Tib. tshil ‘fat, grease’ and Chin. 脂zhī ‘fat, grease’. The philological identification of the meaning of TB pitke as ‘fat, grease, oil’ opens the door to an etymological connection with PIE *pei̯H- ‘to be fat, swell’, and, based on the historical phonology of Tocharian, leads to the determination of the laryngeal as *‑h1.