Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *bŭt

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dust, dirt

Chinese: � *b_ǝt dust tossed up into the air (cf. also 勃 *b_ǝ̄t powdery (of soil)).

Tibetan: bud a cloud of dust, every darkening of the air through dry matter.

Burmese: phut dust.

Kachin: ǝbut² dirt, trash.

Lushai: phut scurfy, floury, powdery.

Lepcha: fat earth

Comments: Bodo gǝ-bǝd dirt. Cf. also Jnp. šǝbat filth; Naga Mzieme mi-maŋ-bɨt, Kabui mbut 'ashes', Ao-Chungli mepet, Yimchungli yin-pɨ 'cloud'. Sh. 46.

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