Another note on genital flipflop
Paul K. Benedict has written two notes in LTBA discussing semantic flipflops between meanings of 'penis' and 'vulva' for words in several Asian languages. He proposed that the Sino-Tibetan root *li(-n) 'penis' flipflopped to the Proto-Karen *lin 'vulva', and t...
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| description | Paul K. Benedict has written two notes in LTBA discussing semantic flipflops between meanings of 'penis' and 'vulva' for words in several Asian languages. He proposed that the Sino-Tibetan root *li(-n) 'penis' flipflopped to the Proto-Karen *lin 'vulva', and the Austro-Tai root *puki < *(m)pu(N)qi 'vulva' flipflopped to the Tsou (Formosan) boki 'penis' .This note concerns an old Chinese word for 'genitalia'. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1787702024-07-05T06:51:00Z Another note on genital flipflop Carr, Michael Otaru University of Commerce Arts and Humanities Paul K. Benedict has written two notes in LTBA discussing semantic flipflops between meanings of 'penis' and 'vulva' for words in several Asian languages. He proposed that the Sino-Tibetan root *li(-n) 'penis' flipflopped to the Proto-Karen *lin 'vulva', and the Austro-Tai root *puki < *(m)pu(N)qi 'vulva' flipflopped to the Tsou (Formosan) boki 'penis' .This note concerns an old Chinese word for 'genitalia'. Published version 2024-07-05T06:51:00Z 2024-07-05T06:51:00Z 1985 Journal Article Carr, M. (1985). Another note on genital flipflop. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 8(1), 87-90. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.8.1.07 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178770 10.32655/LTBA.8.1.07 1 8 87 90 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1985 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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