Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *su(t)

Meaning: cough

Tibetan: sud to cough.

Kiranti: *sò(ŋ)

Comments: BG: Garo gusu, Dim. gusu; Magari su. Ben. 101.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śū

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: grandchild

Chinese: 孫 *sūn (? *swǝ̄n) grandson, granddaughter.

Kachin: šu⁴ grandchild, (H) also kǝšu.

Lushai: KC *su grandchild.

Lepcha: zon grandchild (?)

Comments: BG: Dimasa su, Bodo sou; Mikir su; Meithei su. Ben. 27,, Ben. 158.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śūm

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: take hold of; fist, a fist-measure

Kachin: šum1 to take hold of, ginšum3 to embrace, lǝšum3 a hold

Lushai: sūm to catch hold of with closed fist; to withhold, hold back; a measurement equal to twice the length of the closed fist.

Comments: Cf. *cūm.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śūr

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sour

Chinese: 酸 *sōr sour.

Tibetan: skjur sour (? < *g-śur, cf. the Rgyarung form below).

Lushai: thūr be acid, sour, KC *thūr.

Lepcha: čór to be sour, to be acid

Kiranti: *ʒhùr

Comments: Tsangla tśur; Kanauri sur-, Lepcha tśór; Rgyarung kǝtśyur; Midzhu sal (M), tśuŕ (K); Bahing dzyur. Sh. 52, 181; Ben. 23. Cf. PAA *ʒVr 'sour'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ś]ūr (~-ō-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: strain, squeeze

Tibetan: bźur to strain, filter.

Lushai: sōr , KC *sōr to wring, to squeeze.

Kiranti: *sur

Comments: PG *ć[o]r^L squeeze (juice); Kanauri tsŭr- to milk, Bunan tśhur; Rgyarung -stsor-. Sh. 54; Ben. 47. Cf. (with a possible confusion) *ćer. STEDT 230-231 *tšur ~ *tšir.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śVj

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: shoot, flash

Kachin: gǝšoi³ to fly, as sparks; to flash, as lightning; to shoot, as an arrow.

Lushai: sai to shoot with a pellet.

Lepcha: ǯă, ǯá to fix arrow on the string, to prepare to fire off

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ś]Vl (~-ɫ)

Meaning: a k. of horned animal

Tibetan: źol yak-bull.

Lushai: sial the domesticated gayal or mithan.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śVm

Meaning: make, prepare

Tibetan: śom to prepare, make ready, arrange.

Lushai: siam to make, to construct, to form, to create, to appoint.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śV̄m

Meaning: wish

Tibetan: ãćhum(s) to wish, to long for.

Lushai: sām to express one's wishes.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sVm (~ś-)

Meaning: small

Chinese: 孅 *sam small.

Burmese: sim disproportionately small, diminutive.

Comments: Cf. also Kabui Naga syem, Kham zim-za, Anong ćhim 'small'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ś]Vn (?)

Meaning: young

Tibetan: gźon young.

Burmese: ćwanʔ diminish, decrease (?)

Lushai: sēn be young, be an infant.

Kiranti: *sòn

Comments: Cf. also: Serdukpen acan-du, Hmar chin 'small'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śVŋ

Meaning: a big number

Burmese: sauŋh 10000.

Lushai: saŋ 1000.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śVŋ

Meaning: dry

Lepcha: šin

Kiranti: *sä̀ŋ(-s)

Comments: Cf. also Motuo-Monpa saŋ-ma, Dhimal seŋ-ka, Taraon šoŋ, Idu šaŋ, Trung *sɔ:ŋ, Naga *caŋ, Guiqiong su.55, Tani *sVn 'dry'. Cf. [*ʒ́oŋ].

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sV̆ŋH (~ʒ-)

Meaning: lift, raise

Chinese: 竦 *soŋʔ to lift up, raise.

Tibetan: seŋ to lift up, to raise.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śV̆p

Meaning: squeeze, wring

Burmese: sip to compress, crowd, cram.

Kachin: šup² to wring, squeeze.

Lushai: sop to wash clothes, etc. by squeezing and repeatedly dashing them upon anything.

Kiranti: *sóp

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śV̄p

Meaning: whisper, whistle

Chinese: 颯 *sǝ̄p whistling of the wind.

Tibetan: śub, śib (p., i. śubs) to whisper, śab-śob whispering.

Kiranti: *supi-

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ś]Vr

Meaning: care for

Kachin: mǝǯan³ to care for, look after.

Lushai: sor to tend, care for.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sVr (?)

Meaning: thread

Chinese: 線 *s[a]rs thread.

Tibetan: sran-bu thread, yarn.

Comments: Luce 61. Hsieh-sheng and the Sino-Viet. form tuyến suggest rather an OCh. form like *sors, which would normally yield MCh. sjwèn, in which case loss of labialisation in MCh would be secondary. On the other hand, the Sino-Viet. form can go back to a dialectal MCh. sjwèn with secondary labialisation on analogy with 泉 (MCh ʒjwen, q.v.). The choice between OCh. *sars and *sors is thus not quite clear. Cf. Austric: PAA *sVr 'to thread', PAN *SuRSuR.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tă ( ~ d-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: stop, prevent; prohibitive particle

Chinese: 遮 *tia intercept, stop

Burmese: tah to prevent in any way; LB *thax a prohibitive particle.

Lepcha: tho to arrrest, to impede, to hinder, to retain, to detain, to stop, to hold enough, to defer

Comments: The root is also used as a negative imperative. Cf. BG: Dimasa, Garo da; Kanauri tha; Vayu ta. Sh. 132, 427; Ben. 97. In Chinese cf. also 止 *tǝʔ 'stop'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tă- (*tǝ̆-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: this, that, demonstrative pronoun

Chinese: 之 *tǝ that, it (obj.); 是 *deʔ this; 時 *dǝ this

Tibetan: de, do that, ãdi this, bdag self.

Burmese: thǝw that.

Kachin: dai¹ this, that; self, ndai¹ this.

Lushai: tei self, tiʔ that.

Lepcha: tă-ă, tă-á, tă-a, tă-o that, that there; tă-do pron. one's self, one's own

Kiranti: *tV-

Comments: Kanauri do that, Mantshati do that, di this, Nung dɛ this. Ben. 19, 65; Peiros-Starostin 216; Coblin 149.