Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[a]ŋ

Meaning: light, bright

Chinese: 陽 *Łaŋ light, brightness.

Tibetan: lʒ́aŋ=khu green; hlaŋ-ŋe 'clear, bright, majestic'

Burmese: laŋh be bright, clear, transparent.

Kachin: leŋ³ be light, bright.

Lushai: liŋ (lin) be red-hot, be aglow.

Lepcha: lóŋ, a-lóŋ reflective light

Comments: Gong 73. Cf. also Karen *kloN.1L, Miju kɨ-lauŋ 'green'; here probably also the BG word for 'moon', *jVŋ (Dimasa da-iŋ, Garo ja-joŋ). Cf. *ƛŏŋ. Cf. PAA *laŋ 'clean, transparent', Tai *la:ŋ 'to clean'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛaŋ ( ~ -ɨa-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: wound, scar

Chinese: 傷 *ƛaŋ injure, wound

Tibetan: ltoŋ incision, scar

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛăw

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: play, joke

Burmese: khjaw to joke, jest.

Kachin: (H) šǝtu to joke, to jest.

Lushai: tloʔ to play or play at (a game).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[a]w

Meaning: boil, melt, mould

Chinese: 陶 *Łhū to mould, kiln; pottery, mould.

Burmese: kjǝw to boil, brew (tea), to melt.

Comments: Cf. also OCh. 窯 *law (since Han) kiln.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛā(k)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: leaf

Chinese: 蘀 *ƛ_āk withered and fallen leaves, �, 茶 *Łā a k. of plant, tea.

Tibetan: lo-ma leaf; la-ma 'a k. of grass'

Burmese: lak-phak, la-phak tea.

Kachin: lǝphra³ dry and fallen leaves.

Kiranti: *lä(m)

Comments: Mikir lo; Magari hla; Vayu lo; Chepang lo; Ben. 146.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛāk

Meaning: take, grasp, choose

Chinese: 擇 *Ł_āk choose.

Kachin: lǝgraʔ² a handful, mǝgraʔ² to seize, grasp, (H) gra id.

Lushai: lek to take or hold in the hand.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛām

Meaning: dance

Tibetan: ãćham to dance.

Lushai: lām to dance, drill, parade.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛān

Meaning: healthy, convalescent

Burmese: kjanh(-ma) be healthy.

Kachin: bran¹ become convalescent, to increase.

Lushai: tlān to grow tall, shoot up high.

Lepcha: lin to grow as trees, plants (not animals), to spring up; to sprout (as hair, horn)

Comments: Kanauri bren get well; Nung ban convalesce. Sh. 47; Ben. 40.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛāŋ

Meaning: steam, hot liquid

Chinese: 湯 *ƛ_āŋ hot liquid.

Tibetan: rlaŋs vapour, steam.

Comments: PG *laŋ steam. Bod. 102. Cf. Karen *lVN 'smoke'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛā̆ŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: lift, rise

Chinese: 揚 *Łaŋ lift, raise.

Tibetan: ldaŋ (p. ldaŋs, laŋs, i. ldoŋ) to rise, to get up, ltoŋs summit.

Lushai: hlāŋ (hlān) to lift up, lift down, tlāŋ a mountain, hill.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 125.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[ā]ŋH

Meaning: a k. of bamboo

Chinese: 簜 *Ł_āŋʔ big bamboo.

Kachin: guŋ-luŋ¹ young bamboo.

Lushai: tleŋ the large bamboo on a noose trap.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *luŋ 'bamboo shoot', PAN *belaŋ 'bamboo'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛe

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: warm

Tibetan: lde to warm one's self.

Kachin: kra² to warm one's self.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛĕ (-n, -ŋ)

Meaning: able, powerful

Chinese: 聖 *ƛeŋ-s 'wise' (?)

Tibetan: ldan a man of a ability.

Lushai: tlin have power to, have ability to.

Kiranti: *le

Comments: The PK form apparently shows that -n and -ŋ in other languages should be treated as suffixed.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛeH

Meaning: strip off

Chinese: 褫 *ƛheʔ, *Łheʔ strip off.

Kachin: mǝla² take or strip off.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛĕm

Meaning: idol, image

Tibetan: ldem statue, idol.

Lushai: lem a model, image, picture, lim an idol, image.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛĕn

Meaning: long, extend

Chinese: 延 *Łan extend, 梴 *ƛhan long (as beams).

Kachin: gran² be long, extended.

Lushai: lian big

Comments: Cf. also Puiron ka-lin-nu 'big'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛen

Meaning: pierce

Tibetan: lʒ́en to enter, to penetrate.

Kachin: khren¹ be pierced through and through.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛen ( ~ l-, -r, -ɫ)

Meaning: dry

Burmese: hlanh to dry, to hang for drying.

Kachin: gǝten¹ be exposed, as to the sun.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛeŋ

Meaning: cheek, gills

Tibetan: ldaŋ cheek.

Kachin: (H) šiŋgjeŋ gills.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛĕp

Meaning: bend, turn, roll up

Tibetan: ldeb bend round, turn round.

Burmese: lip to twist, curl (hair), turn up (sleeves).

Kachin: (H) lap be turned, as the corners of the leaves of a book, gǝlap to scale off, as the skin; to turn, as the leaf of a book.

Lushai: lep (leʔ) to turn up, roll up; tlep to have the edge turned (as knife).

Comments: Sh. 40.