teyan
English: Translation
belly
Semantic Domain
Body parts
Custom tags
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