Sino-Caucasian etymology : Query result

Comments and references : The semantic connection of 'blue' and 'iron' is found in PNC *nHǟƛ̣_wV̆ 'blue; (blue metal) > iron' and Bsq *urdi-n 'blue, gray', *burdina 'iron'. It is uncertain whether this association existed already in the ancestor of Bsq and NC, or developed independently. If original, the word may have referred to rare, and expensive, meteoric iron.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *niHV (?*niŋHV)

Meaning: hair, beard

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: [*niǝ]

Burushaski: *-ŋí

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nĭ́qwē

Meaning: chaff; rush

North Caucasian: *nĕq_wē

Sino-Tibetan: *nĕkʷ (/*mĕkʷ)

Yenisseian: *dVʔqVn (/-χ-)

Burushaski: *naɣéći

Comments and references : -HGC 29, LV Cb4.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nōmqī́

Meaning: breast; heart, mind

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *mōnqī (~-ē)

Sino-Tibetan: *niŋ ( ~ -iǝ-) (s-)

Yenisseian: *ʔan[ɨ]ŋ

Comments and references : Somewhat different in NSC 59 *nVmHV; the relationship to PST *ńV̆m `think' is, however, not quite clear. Do we deal with archaic derivation: *nōmV 'think' > *nōm-qī́ 'organ of thinking, mind / heart / breast'?

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nŭsÁ

Meaning: younger sister, daughter-in-law

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *nŭsA ( ~ -ŏ-)

Sino-Tibetan: *nǝ̆wH

Yenisseian: *dus

Burushaski: *-muśi

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nV

Meaning: demonstrative pronoun

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *nV

Sino-Tibetan: *nV

Burushaski: *-ne in *i-ne `that', *khe-ne `this'

Comments and references : LDC 40.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nVŁ_wV

Meaning: to love, desire

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=inŁ_wV

Sino-Tibetan: *nīkʷ

Basque: *lehia

Comments and references : [For the NC form cf. alternatively PST *lŏ 1812 and perhaps Bur. Hun., Nag. halc̣ `to fall in love', *-jal `friend, protection'.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nV́mswV

Meaning: a k. of cloth

North Caucasian: *nīmswV ( ~ -ē-,-ɨ̄-,-ǝ̄-)

Sino-Tibetan: *nǝ̆m

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nV(x)qwV

Meaning: behind

North Caucasian: Av. naq:a, Lak. maq 'behind'

Sino-Tibetan: *nŏk / *nŏŋ

Comments and references : NSC 60 *nVqwV, LDC 18.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *ŋä̆kwV̆ ?

Meaning: to bow, stoop; knee

North Caucasian: *nä̆kwV̆