Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋā-

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: I, we

Chinese: 吾 *ŋhā I, we, 我 *ŋhājʔ my, me, 言 *ŋhan I, we, 卬 *ŋhāŋ I,me.

Tibetan: ŋa I, we, ŋan we (C), ŋed I, we, (d)ŋos I, we, self, ŋaŋ-ma self, own

Burmese: ŋa I, LB *ŋa.

Kachin: ŋai¹ I.

Lushai: ŋei self, KC *ŋei.

Lepcha: kă I

Kiranti: *ʔòŋ / *gòŋ

Comments: BG: Garo aŋ, Bodo ŋa; Moshang, Namsangia ŋa; PG *ŋa; Trung ŋa²; Kham ŋā; Kaike ŋā. Simon 13; Sh. 36, 62, 123, 429; Ben. 65, 93; Luce 2; Peiros-Starostin 217. A compound form *kă-ŋā- (for the first part see *k(j)ǝ̆- this, he) probably gave rise to a number of nasalless forms: cf. PK *gòŋ (opposed to *ʔòŋ just like *gìnä thou is opposed to *ʔìnä id.); Karen *khV I; Tib. kho-bo I, me; Miju ki I; Kanauri gö I; Lush. ka me, my, kei myself; Dhimal ka, Mantshati gye, Chamba-Lahuli ge I (see Sh. 133), Lepcha kă.