Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nīkʷ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: desire

Chinese: 惄 *n_īkʷ hungry for, desirous.

Tibetan: gńog to desire, sńogs to envy.

Kiranti: *ńak 'ask, request' (?)

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nī(l)

Meaning: gums

Tibetan: rńil, sńil the gums.

Kachin: (Ben.) wa-nin (Assamese dial.).

Lushai: hni the gums; skin covering the root of the nail.

Lepcha: njăl, njel the gums (of teeth)

Comments: Mikir so-ni; BG: Dimasa ha-rni, Garo wa-riŋ (< *wa-rni); Kanauri stil; Thebor nyil. Sh. 134; Ben. 16; Bod. 149.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nīŋ (s-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: year

Chinese: 年 *nhīn harvest; year.

Tibetan: rńiŋ old, ancient (of things); na-niŋ last year.

Burmese: hnać year.

Kachin: šǝniŋ¹ year.

Lushai: KC *Niŋ.

Kiranti: *niŋ

Comments: Tsangla niŋ; Mikir niŋ; Rawang niŋ; Trung aŋ³-niŋ¹ year; Miri nyiŋ-. Simon 26; Sh 38, 410; Ben. 79.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *n[ɨă]

Meaning: think, be aware

Chinese: 茹 *nas to deliberate, calculate, examine.

Tibetan: mno to think, fancy, imagine.

Kachin: na² to feel, be aware of, conscious of.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAN *henaq 'think, consider', PAA *nVh 'see'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nɨănH

Meaning: press

Chinese: � *nranʔ to work leather so as to make it smooth and soft; 碾 *nranʔ stone roller for grain.

Tibetan: non (p. gnan, mnan) to press, nan the act of pressing.

Comments: Cf. *nrē̆ɫH soft (q. v.).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńɨ̆H

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sinew

Chinese: 餌 *n_ǝs sinew.

Tibetan: ńa muscle.

Burmese: hńǝwʔ bowstring.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 217.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nɨ̆k (r-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hide, conceal

Chinese: 匿 *nrǝk conceal.

Tibetan: brnogs hide, conceal.

Burmese: hnǝuk to penetrate, dive into.

Comments: Bod. 130; Peiros-Starostin 218.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *n[ɨ̆]ŋ

Meaning: push

Chinese: 扔 *nhǝŋ to pull, push.

Burmese: ? ŋaŋ pull, draw, drag.

Kachin: noŋ³, gǝnoŋ³ to push.

Lushai: ? hŋoŋ, hŋok to push, thrust, strike with the elbow.

Lepcha: njáŋ to move, to shake, to vibrate

Comments: Luce 72.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nɨ̆r

Meaning: know, think

Chinese: 認 *nǝrs to acknowledge, admit, recognize [Han].

Kachin: (H) non to reflect, consider.

Kiranti: *ńir

Comments: Cf. PAN *bener 'true, righteous, honest'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nɨ̄ (/*nɨ̄ŋ)

Meaning: can, able

Chinese: 能 *n_ǝ̄, *n_ǝ̄ŋ be able, can.

Tibetan: nus be able.

Burmese: nǝuŋ potential, can, able to.

Kachin: (H) nu be able, capable.

Kiranti: *nù good, right, permissible

Comments: Cf. also Sulung a-niaŋ, Sichuan *nV 'good'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ń[ɨ̄]l

Meaning: dirt, mire

Chinese: 泥 *nǝ̄j mud, mire.

Tibetan: ńal-ńil filth, dirt.

Burmese: ńwan, nunh alluvium, deep mud or mire.

Kachin: pǝnen¹, pu¹-nen¹ phlegm, mucus, secreted by a snake.

Lushai: KC *nēl 'sand'

Comments: Cf. perhaps some words for 'ashes': Naga Mao pi-vo-ni, Khezhama pa-vɨ-nuo; Nung (Nusu) dʒɛr.42 nhɛr.42; Trung (Anong) ńi.33 xi.55.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *n(j)ot (~-uat)

Meaning: twist

Tibetan: sńod (p. bsńad) to draw out and twist.

Kachin: nut² to strip and twist.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏ

Meaning: elder female relative

Chinese: 嬃 *snho elder sister.

Kachin: nu⁴, gǝnu² a mother; a mother's sister.

Lushai: nu a mother; a step-mother, a mother-in-law etc., KC *nu, anu a mother.

Lepcha: nju, a-nju an aunt, also applied to elder sister, wife

Comments: Moshang nyu mother; Banpara -nu id. Sh. 441.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏ

Meaning: wait, expect

Chinese: 需 *sno to wait, expect.

Burmese: nǝwh to expect, await.

Comments: Luce 29.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏ (~ń-)

Meaning: wet, muddy (liquid)

Chinese: 濡 *n_o moisten, soak, wet, glossy.

Lushai: nu (nut) be muddy (as liquid).

Comments: Cf. PAN *lunaw 'soft watery mud'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: nipple, breast; suckle

Chinese: 乳 *noʔ nipple; milk, suckle.

Tibetan: nu to suck, nud, snun to suckle.

Burmese: nǝwʔ breast, milk, LB *hnǝw(ʔ).

Lushai: hnu-tē milk, breast.

Kiranti: *n[u]

Comments: Kham nwīN; Tsangla nu milk; Trung nuŋ¹ nipple, breast, milk. Sh. 60; Ben. 100; Peiros-Starostin 216. STEDT 189-201 *s-nǝw-[t/n] (with a variant *n(y)u[k/ŋ]). Cf. PAN *nunuH 'breast, milk' (Sag 4).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *noj

Meaning: break to pieces, crumble

Tibetan: sno to reduce to small pieces, to crumble.

Lushai: noi small pieces, fragments.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏk

Meaning: disgrace, ridicule

Chinese: 辱 *nok disgrace, shame.

Burmese: nauk to jest, joke.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏk / *nŏŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: back

Tibetan: nog cervical vertebra; hump of a camel.

Burmese: nauk space behind, LB *snukx; ǝhnauŋʔ the back of a knife, hnauŋh be after (in time), posterior.

Lushai: hnuŋ the back.

Comments: Mikir ǝnuŋ back. Ben. 76. Cf. also Sulung *ńVk 'tail'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nŏr

Meaning: push

Kachin: non² push forward.

Lushai: nor to push or thrust (with the head as cattle).

Comments: Trung nɔl¹ to push.