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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HistwV́
Meaning: place
sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-yen,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *jicwǝ ( ~ -o)
Meaning: place
Notes: Besides PL *jisʷ cf. Urart. esǝ 'place' ( < HU *ec-). An interesting Lezg.-HU isogloss (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 39).
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-lezg,caucet-comment,
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *jisʷ
Meaning: 1 place 2 near
Tabasaran: jiš̌ 1
Agul: isʷ (Bursh.) 1
Udi: ɨIša 2
Comment: Cf. also Tab. Düb., Ulz. jiš̌ (for the weak *sʷ [the latest MSU recording: Ag. Bursh. is:ʷ is certainly erroneous]), Ag. Fit. us. Obl. base *jisʷa- (cf. Tab. jiš̌a-, Ag. Bursh. isʷa-, Fit. usa-). See Гигинейшвили 1977, 119.
lezget-prnum,lezget-meaning,lezget-tab,lezget-agu,lezget-udi,lezget-comment,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chǝ̄j ( ~ -ɨ̄j)
Meaning: nest
Tibetan: gze home, habitation, nest.
Comments: See notes to *dɨ[l]; from STEDT (285-288) one may add Qiang forms meaning 'nest' (Pumi sčua etc.) (?).
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-comments,
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Chinese characters :
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Character: 棲
Modern (Beijing) reading: qī
Preclassic Old Chinese: shǝ̄j
Classic Old Chinese: shǝ̄j
Western Han Chinese: shǝ̄j
Eastern Han Chinese: shǝ̄j
Early Postclassic Chinese: shǝ̄j
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shǝ̄j
Late Postclassic Chinese: shǝ̄j
Middle Chinese: siej
English meaning : to roost, rest; bird's nest
Russian meaning[s]: 1) отдыхать; найти приют, приютиться; сидеть на насесте; приют, пристанище; насест; птичье гнездо; 2) перен. постель; место ночлега
Comments: For *sh cf. Fuzhou chä1, Jianou chai5 (the latter reflecting a variant *shǝ̄j-s).
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 8802
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,
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Yenisseian etymology :
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Proto-Yenisseian: *ʔut- (~x-)
Meaning: near
Ket: ūtiś1
Yug: utis1
Kottish: uti-ga 'towards here'
Comments: ССЕ 201. Werner 2, 371.
yenet-prnum,yenet-meaning,yenet-ket,yenet-sym,yenet-kot,yenet-notes,
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