pam⁵⁵

Pela

pam⁵⁵

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Burmese ပုံ (pum, “pile, to pile up”), possibly Tibetan ཕུང་པོ (phung po, “pile”), Nuosu ꁧ (bbo, “mountain, pile”), Nusu bɔ³³ (“pile”), Lisu ꓑꓱꓺ (pø̱, “heap, pile”), Naxi ba (“pile”), possibly Japhug rmbɯ (“to pile up”), possibly Tangut 𗪽 (*bur¹, “to gather”), Northern Pumi bu⁵⁵ (“pile”), Jingpho bum (“mountain, to pile up”), Proto-Karen *plomᴮ (“to pile up”), Chepang पोम्‍ह्‌सा (pomh sa, “to pile up”), Manipuri ꯄꯥꯝ (paam, “hilly terrain”) and Bokar pum (“to pile up”). Compare Lhao Vo bam, Zaiwa bum, Lashi boem and Longchuan Achang pum⁵⁵.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pam⁵⁵/

Noun

pam⁵⁵ (Classifier pam⁵⁵)

1. mountain, hill
2. pile

Derived terms

• pam³¹ tau⁵¹ (“mountain chief”)
• pam⁵⁵ ja⁵⁵ (“mountainous area”)
• pam⁵⁵ kja³⁵ (“to go down a mountain”)
• pam⁵⁵ kʰja⁵⁵ (“mountain road”)
• pam⁵⁵ mau³¹ (“mountainous area”)
• pam⁵⁵ nja̠u̠k⁵⁵ (“mountain top”)
• pam⁵⁵ taʔ³¹ (“to climb a mountain”)
• pam⁵⁵ va⁵⁵ (“ mountain village”)

 

Classifier

pam⁵⁵

1. numeral classifier for mountains and objects organised in piles

   mø⁵⁵ʃa⁵⁵ tă.pam⁵⁵

   a pile of sand

References

• Dai Qingxia, Jiang Ying, Kong Zhien, A Study of Pela Language (2007; Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, Beijing)
• Guillaume Jacques, Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014; Brill, Leiden)
• Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wang Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing)
• Mangshi Jinghpo ethnicity Association of Development and Progress Studies(芒市景颇族发展进步研究学会)(ed.), Han-Zaiwa-Pela Dictionary (汉文载瓦文波拉语对译词典) (2018; Dehong Nationalities Publishing House, Mangshi)