Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćhǝ̄k ( ~ ʒ́h-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: robber, bandit

Chinese: 賊 *ʒ́hǝ̄k murderer, bandit, villain.

Tibetan: ʒ́ag robbing, robbery.

Kachin: (?) ʒok², sok² to scout, spy out.

Comments: Simon 9; Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 127. Cf. Austric forms: Thai ṣɨk, Khmer sɨk 'army, war', Mon sek 'quarrel, fight', Viet. xích, xếch id. - all probably < Chinese; also PAN *mu(ń)suh ~ mǝsah 'enemy' (Peiros 1998, 220)?