Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wuak

Meaning: hide, conceal

Chinese: 僕 *bōk, *būk conceal.

Tibetan: phag something hidden, concealment.

Burmese: hwak hide, conceal, LB *wakx hide; phwak id. (Luce).

Comments: Ben. 24; Luce 69.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wŭt ( ~ Qʷ-)

Meaning: blow

Kachin: gǝwut² blow with mouth.

Lushai: KC *wut.

Comments: Sh. 431.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wV (*ʔu)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: demonstrative pronoun

Kachin: wo.33 ʒa.31 that

Lepcha: o that

Comments: Cf. also Bodo *u, Chepang ʔowʔ, ʔuʔ, Sichuan *ʔu, Jiarong wu etc.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*wVj]

Meaning: monkey

Kachin: woi¹ monkey.

Comments: ? Mikir ki-pi; ?Miri si-be; Moshang vi-sil; Rawang ǝwɛ; Trung a-koi; Kadu kwe. Ben. 68. Cf. PAA *wa 'monkey'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wVp (? *jVp)

Meaning: ashes

Burmese: LB *m-japx

Lushai: mei vāp (cf. also Hmar mei wām)

Comments: Cf. also Shixing pa.33 ji.35, Zhaba phi.53 and other Sichuan forms; Proto-Karen *pha.4L 'ashes' should be perhaps also related here.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xăr

Meaning: lift

Chinese: 掀 *xar to lift.

Tibetan: ker-pa to raise, lift up.

Lushai: kar to lever.

Comments: ?Cf. Austric: PAN *quŋkil 'lever, pry', PAA *kVr 'handle'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xeŋ

Meaning: hear, resound

Chinese: 聲 *xeŋ sound; fame

Comments: Cf. Kar. *[hj]VN.T, Dhimal hiŋ- 'hear'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xǝ̆j-s

Meaning: gift, present

Chinese: 氣 *xǝjs ( ~ -ts) to present food, 餼 *xǝjs (~ -ts) gift of animal or grain.

Tibetan: skjes present (cf. also (ã)khjos-ba id.).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xjā̆l

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: play, joke

Chinese: 戲 *xajs to sport, joke, jest.

Tibetan: kjal-ka joke, jest, dkjal to talk nonsense.

Lushai: khāl to play with.

Comments: Trung a³-găl² to play. Coblin 99.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xrāwH

Meaning: piety, modesty

Chinese: 孝 *xrāws to be filial, filial piety.

Burmese: krǝwʔ to bow, greet, be modest, obedient.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xrɨā̆k

Meaning: scare, fear

Chinese: 嚇 *xrāk scare, 虩 *xrak fear.

Tibetan: skrag be terrified, frightened, skrog frighten

Burmese: krauk to fear, LB *kruk; khrauk frighten.

Comments: Trung a³-krăʔ¹ to fear. Ben. 127; Luce 80.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xrɨāk

Meaning: red

Chinese: 赫 *xrāk red.

Tibetan: khrag blood.

Lushai: ṭok be blebby, be red and spotted (as face).

Comments: Bod. 175. Cf. Nusu xri³⁵ 'red'

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xruăk

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bright, sunshine

Chinese: 旭 *x(r)ok bright; rising sun.

Tibetan: bkrag-pa brightness, lustre.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *xūH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pleasant, good

Chinese: 好 *xūʔ good, fine

Tibetan: mkho pleasant

Comments: Cf. Jiarong kǝ-hou 'good'. In STEDT 136-137 the Chin. form is compared with TB *hu 'born/birth/rear'; the root is attested, however, only in Bokar, Padam-Mising, a Meithei compound, Qiang χu 'to give birth' and several Lolo-Burmese languages, and does not seem very reliable.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χă

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: empty

Chinese: 虛 *xa empty.

Burmese: ha be empty.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[χ]aŋ

Meaning: pant, gasp

Tibetan: haŋ to pant, gasp.

Kachin: gǝaŋ¹ to gasp for breath , as a dying person.

Comments: Ben. 33.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χăŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: meat soup

Chinese: 膷 *xaŋ beef soup.

Burmese: haŋh a k. of soup (with meat, fish, vegetables etc.).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χăŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: smell, stink

Chinese: 香 *xaŋ fragrance.

Kachin: khaŋ¹ to stink, (H) ǝkhaŋ disagreeable odor.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χăp

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bite, take into mouth

Chinese: 嗋 *xap shut (e. g. mouth).

Tibetan: hab a mouthful.

Burmese: hap to bite, snap.

Lushai: hap bite, snap.

Comments: Ben. 32.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χăr

Meaning: pattern, model

Chinese: 憲 *xars law; model; rule.

Burmese: han manner, style.

Kachin: (H) khan a pattern, style (not used by itself).

Lushai: kar to coerce, force, drive; (LS) to secure or demand on certain conditions or by distraint.

Comments: For Lush. cf. alternatively PK *ghVr run, drive.