teyan

English: Translation
belly
Body parts
Yamada
Body Parts & Body Sensations
Notes

teyan

n.

The belly, abdomen, or stomach region; the front central portion of the body containing the digestive organs.

Morphology

Simple root; contracted stem tyan appears in derivation.

Derived forms

  • katyan (ka- + teyan → tyan) — kin; relative

Semantic note

The contracted form tyan occurs in derived formations after loss of unstressed e.

Compare

  • rogo’ — blood as a basis of kinship