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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tɨ̄̆ɫ (~d-; r-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: dust
Chinese: 塵 *drǝn dust.
Tibetan: rdul dust.
Lushai: (?) dōl soil, refuse etc. banked up against a fence.
Kiranti: *tòl
Comments: Simon 28; Coblin 68.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjak (~d-) /-ŋ
Meaning: sole of foot, step
Chinese: 蹠 *tiak to step; sole, back of foot.
Lepcha: thoŋ, dyaŋ foot
Comments: Cf. also Bodo a-teʔŋ foot.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *t(j)ē
Meaning: peaceful, quiet
Chinese: 禔 *te, *dē̆ peace, happiness; 提 *dē calm.
Tibetan: źi to become quiet, calm; bde be happy.
Kachin: (H) šiŋdi be quiet, peaceful.
Comments: Peiros-Starostin 211; Coblin 91. Cf. Austric: PAA *tVj 'rest', PAN *sa(n)day, *sa(n)daR 'lean, rest on'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjiǝ̆ŋ ( ~ d-)
Meaning: centre, middle
Chinese: 正 *teŋ centre of a target.
Tibetan: ãʒ́iŋ the middle.
Kachin: gintheŋ2 a destination; the point aimed at.
Comments: Peiros-Starostin 211. Cf. also: Motuo-Monpa thiŋ lom, Dhimal kondhaŋ, Garo katoŋ, Gurung *tiN.1, Kaike ḍiŋ 'heart'. ? Cf. PAN *teŋaq 'middle, half' (Peiros 1998, 223).
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjiǝ̄p ( ~ d-)
Meaning: mount
Chinese: 搭 *tǝ̄p to mount, ride (a vehicle) (since Song).
Tibetan: ãćhib(s) to ascend, to mount.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *t(j)ij ( ~ d-)
Meaning: come, arrive
Chinese: 至 *tits ( ~ -js) to come to, get to, arrive at, reach to.
Tibetan: mćhi-ba (eleg.) to come, go.
Lepcha: thí, thí-t to reach, to arrive; di, dí to come, to proceed
Kiranti: *[th]e(k)
Comments: Coblin 56. The Tib. form can be also compared with Lush. čē (čēt) to move. Cf. also Kulung te:ma (tek-) 'arrive'; Motuo-Monpa de, Miji dai, Rawang di, Sichuan *dV 'come'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Tjɨăl
Meaning: hand over, relinquish
Chinese: 禪 *d_ar relinquish, cede, hand over to another.
Tibetan: ãćhol (p. bćol, f. gźol) to entrust a person with a thing.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjɨ̆ŋ(H)
Meaning: lift, raise
Chinese: 拯 *tǝŋʔ to lift up, 上 *daŋʔ rise, raise, *daŋs up, above, on, over, 尚 *daŋ upwards.
Tibetan: bźeŋ (resp.) to raise, erect, set up (cf. also daŋ 'first'?)
Burmese: thauŋ to lift up, place upright.
Lushai: toŋ to reach up to (as anything on the ground reaching up to anything raised above it).
Lepcha: thaŋ above
Comments: Cf. also OCh. 登 *tǝ̄ŋ rise, ascend; put up; Lush. čhɔ̄ŋ one above another (*dǝ̄ŋ ?); Limbu thaŋmaʔ 'come up' (also Kir. *dhǝ̀ŋ 'head, above'); Kar. *tha[ŋ] 'up, go up' (Pwo thã, Sgaw thɔ), Cf. PAA *dVŋ 'above'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Tjŏ(w)
Meaning: a measure of weight
Chinese: 銖 *d_o 24-th part of an ounce liang.
Tibetan: źo dram, a small weight.
Comments: Cf. alternatively OCh. 錙 *ćrǝ name of an ancient weight.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjun (~d-)
Meaning: tuft
Chinese: 鬊 *tuns a tuft of free-hanging, disorderly hair.
Tibetan: ćhun bunch, bundle, tuft, tassel.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[t]ŏ (~-r-;-n)
Meaning: pour, melt
Chinese: 注 *tos, *tros to pour, 鑄 *tos to cast.
Tibetan: ãʒ́u-ba, źu-ba, gźu-ba, bźu-ba to melt (part. pret. źun-ba, bźun-mo).
Burmese: tun-tun to dilute (Mat. 161).
Kachin: tun1 to dissolve, melt as snow.
Comments: Mat. 161.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tŏH (/-k)
Meaning: chief, master
Chinese: 主 *toʔ master, lord, host; principal.
Tibetan: thu a chief; an elder brother.
Kachin: (D) mǝduʔ2 have rule and authority over.
Comments: Cf. PAA *tVw, PAN *datu 'master' (see Peiros 1998, 221).
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Toj
Meaning: sleep, lie
Chinese: 睡 *d(h)oj-s
Comments: Cf. Kanauri di-ši- 'lie', Tani *do, Bodo *tu id. One should perhaps also relate here Lush. toi, KC *toi 'short' < *'lying low'; for a similar semantic change cf. *[lj]ǝ̆ŋ (and similar semantic relations, e.g., in Germanic). Sag. 6 compares Chin. with PAN *tuDuR 'sleep'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *toj ( ~ dh-,-u-)
Meaning: youngest child, younger brother or sister
Burmese: thwijh the youngest child, cf. also miʔ-thwijh mother's younger sister, step-mother, bhaʔ-thwijh father's younger brother, step-father.
Kachin: doi3 father's younger brother, (Mat.) šǝdoi3 younger (child); last born child in a family, mi-doi3 stepmother, mother's younger sister, wa-doi3 stepfather, father's younger brother.
Comments: Dimasa gidi younger (child), bidi father's younger brother, madi father's younger sister. Mat. 192. Cf. also Burm. ti 'descendant (in the 4th generation)' (?).
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Toj (~ -ua ?)
Meaning: a measure, span
Tibetan: mtho a span (from the end of the thumb to the end of the middle finger when extended).
Burmese: thwa to measure with a span.
Comments: Pwo thâ, Sgaw tha. Sh. 45; Ben. 45, 151. Cf. PAA *dʔa 'span, measure'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tŏj (~d-,-l)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: hang, be suspended
Chinese: 垂 *d_oj hang down; 埵 *tōjʔ droop.
Burmese: twajh to be suspended, hang down.
Comments: Luce 22.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tŏk (~d-)
Meaning: join, bind
Chinese: 屬 *dok be joined to, belong to, be of the category of, be attached to, *tok attach, connect, apply (also 祝 *tuk to attach)
Tibetan: ãdogs (p. btags, f. gdag(s), i. thogs) to bind, to fasten, tie to, to fix.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tŏm (~d-,-ŭ-)
Meaning: mortar, pestle
Chinese: 舂 *toŋ to hull grain with a pestle; beating stick for beating time in music.
Kachin: thum2 mortar.
Comments: Moshang thum. A number of other forms: OB ćhum mortar (for rice), Lush. sum a mortar (KC *sum), PK *cúm, *sùm, Tromowa tshom-, BG: Dimasa sām-, Garo -sam - seem to be ultimately borrowed from Chinese (cf. Proto-Min *cjoŋ, MC śöuŋ) or else represent a quite different root. Sh. 436. (?cf. PAN *esuŋ, *lesuŋ 'rice mortar'; ?? PFU *šumare 'mortar').
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[t]ŏmH (~-ŭ-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: seed, fruit kernel
Chinese: 種 *toŋʔ seed, different kinds of grain.
Kachin: tum1, ǝtum1 seed, kernel as of fruit.
Comments: Cf. also Wancho (Konyak) hatuŋ 'seed'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ton (~dh-,-u-)
Meaning: show
Tibetan: ston (p., f. bstan) to show.
Kachin: mǝdun3 to show, exhibit.
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