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

Tao Pan

doi:10.1515/if-2019-0010

Published by De Gruyter September 18, 2019

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

Tao Pan

From the journal Indogermanische Forschungen

https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2019-0010

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Tocharian; Sanskrit; etymology; medical; magic; Indo-European lexeme for ‘fat’

Online erschienen: 2019-09-18

Erschienen im Druck: 2019-09-18

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

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