Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[b]ēɫ

Meaning: edible root

Burmese: pinh arum (? LB *plimx).

Kachin: (H) niŋ-bjen a variety of arum.

Lushai: bāl the generic term for edible arum.

Comments: Thankur pay bulbous root; Kham phuN-ti an edible wild root.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bǝ̆n

Meaning: divide, part

Chinese: 分 *pǝn to divide, separate, *bǝns part, portion.

Burmese: LB *pan 'bite' (?)

Kachin: (H) ban a division, part.

Comments: Bodo pan share, part.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhăŋ

Meaning: room, hut

Chinese: 房 *baŋ side-room, room.

Tibetan: baŋ store-room, store-house.

Kachin: ǯaŋ¹phaŋ² a tent, dǝbaŋ¹ a camp.

Lushai: baŋ a wall.

Comments: PG *praŋ^L hut. Bod. 177; Coblin 72.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhăr

Meaning: abundant, numerous

Chinese: 繁 *b_ar abundant; 蕃 *b_ar be prosperous, rich, numerous.

Tibetan: dpar glory, splendour; wealth, abundance; welfare, happiness.

Lushai: bar very, much

Comments: Cf. *phV̆r.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhājH

Meaning: lame

Chinese: 跛 *pājʔ be lame.

Lushai: bai be lame, KC *t-bai.

Comments: Miri -be; Rgyarung (ta)-bye. Sh. 121, 194.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bh[ĕ]l

Meaning: increase, add

Chinese: 毗 *b_ij to enlarge, strengthen.

Tibetan: ãphel-ba to increase, augment.

Lushai: belʔ addition.

Comments: Coblin 97.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[bh]ēŋ

Meaning: hit with the flat of hand

Kachin: (H) bjiŋ to hit with the flat of the hand.

Lushai: bēŋ (ben) strike or hit with the open hand.

Comments: Cf. perhaps Naga *bVN 'hand'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *b(h)ēr

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: side

Chinese: 邊 *pēn side, periphery of territory.

Kiranti: *phä̀r

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhǝ̆k (~ -ɨ̆-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: garment

Chinese: 服 *bǝk garment, robe; to wear.

Tibetan: ãbog a k. of upper garment.

Kiranti: *phék

Comments: Cf. PAN *t'abuk 'loincloth' (Peiros 1998, 221).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhǝ̆wH

Meaning: swell

Tibetan: sbo (p. sbos), ãbo (p. ãbos), bo, pho (f. dbo) to swell up (cf. also spo summit of a mountain).

Burmese: phuʔ be convex, swollen.

Lushai: boʔ an inflammatory swelling.

Comments: Cf. also Burm. pwaʔ to swell, pwah to grow, increase. An expressive root, somewhat difficult to distinguish from *phŭH q. v.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[bh]ǝ̄̆k

Meaning: bat

Chinese: 蝠 *pǝk bat.

Lushai: bāk, KC *bāk the bat.

Kiranti: *pákti

Comments: BG: Garo -bak, Dimasa -pa-ma, Bodo ba-dlí a bat; Namsangia phak-; Rawang pha-sä̂; Newari lā-pā. Sh. 160, 405, 428; Ben. 71.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhǝ̄k

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: back, side

Chinese: 背 *pǝ̄ks back, 北 *pǝ̄k North; turn the back.

Tibetan: phag-ma back part of smth. (Schm.).

Burmese: phak a side (Luce).

Lushai: bak side-whiskers; the side of the face in front of the ear and in the region of the temple.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhial

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: round

Lushai: bial

Kiranti: *pVl

Comments: Cf. also Sulung a-bɨ, Tani *pɨ, Hmar in-biel, Thakali phol-toŋ 'round'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhiǝj

Meaning: bean

Chinese: ? 菲 phǝjʔ radish

Burmese: pajh beans.

Kachin: [? šǝpre¹,(H) preŋ a leguminous plant of any kind; beans, peas].

Lushai: be a k. of edible beans.

Comments: Dimasa sabai; Midzhu ta-be. Sh. 185; Ben. 59; Mat. 176. Cf. Austric: PAA *bʔa:j / *bʔaj 'bean', PAN *buay 'legumes'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhĭl

Meaning: blunt

Burmese: pij blunt.

Lushai: bil blunt.

Comments: Cf. PAN *belbel, *bebel, *tumpel, *de(m)pul 'dull, blunt'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhɨ̆k

Meaning: lie down

Chinese: 伏 *bǝk to lie on the face, prostrate.

Lushai: bok (boʔ) to lie down or recline (as animals on the stomach).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhjāŋ

Meaning: hang up, suspend

Tibetan: dpjaŋ , spjaŋ to suspend, to make hang down.

Kachin: (H) ǝphjaŋ to hang, as a vine.

Lushai: bāŋ (bān) to hang up.

Comments: Ben. 46.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhōk

Meaning: measure; predict

Chinese: 卜 *pōk prognostics; predict.

Tibetan: dpogs (p. dpags, f. dpag) to measure, to proportion, to fix.

Lushai: būk to measure, compare.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bh(r)ĕɫ

Meaning: sew

Tibetan: sbrel to stitch together; sew on.

Lushai: bel to sew on.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bhrō̆ŋ

Meaning: cattle

Chinese: 犎 *p(r)oŋ a sp. of cattle.

Tibetan: ãbroŋ wild yak.

Burmese: prauŋ bison, buffalo.

Lushai: bōŋ a bull, an ox.

Comments: Kham bǝ̀yN-sa buffalo. Sh. 51; Ben. 40; Bod. 166. Cf. PAA *(pǝ)rVŋ 'buffalo' (see Peiros 1998, 226).