Sino-Caucasian etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *GwHV̄bV̆́

Meaning: top, heap

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *GwHV̄bV̆

Yenisseian: *χ[o]p

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *GwímʡV

Meaning: house

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *G_winʡV (~ -ħ-,-ʕ-)

Sino-Tibetan: *qĭm ( ~ *qʷĭm)

Basque: *[g]une

Comments and references : WFR 64, LDC 33.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *Gwɨ̆rʔí ( ~ -ɦ-,-ǝ̆-)

Meaning: stalk

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *Gwɨ̆rʔi ( ~ -ɦ-,-ǝ̆-)

Sino-Tibetan: ST *qʷrā 'flower; beard (on spikes)'

Burushaski: *qherí

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *Gwṓrʡe

Meaning: a k. of small animal

North Caucasian: *G_wōrʡe

Sino-Tibetan: *qhʷār (~*Gʷ-)

Comments and references : WFR 10.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *gwVćV́

Meaning: lean, meager, bad

North Caucasian: *gwVćV

Basque: *gaic / *gaiśo

Comments and references : For semantics cf. Eng slim ~ Ger schlimm ‘bad’; Rus худой ‘bad, ill; lean, meager’, etc.; Eng left (hand) < OE left, lyft ‘weak’, etc.: Rutul gɨči-d ‘left’. Etymological comparison suggested by John Bengtson.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *GwVɫŏ

Meaning: side; half

North Caucasian: *Gw[ü̆]ɫŏ (~-ǝ̆)

Yenisseian: *χɔlab

Comments and references : HGC 26, WFR 35, LV C8. PST *qālH 'burden, back' should be rather compared with PNC *χ_[ä]lʔV `burden, load' (see *[χ]VlʔV). 5th tone in Ket may reflect *-ʔ-, which would contradict lax type in NC, but may also be a misrecording or also a secondary influence of the root *[χ]V́lʔV.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *GwVmV́

Meaning: small

North Caucasian: *=HimGwV

Yenisseian: *qomat- (~χ-,-ɔ-)

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *[G]wV́nGwV̄

Meaning: neck

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *GwVnG_wV

Sino-Tibetan: *qɨāŋ

Yenisseian: *kǝ(ʔ)qǝnt-

Burushaski: *qoqó

Basque: *gonga-r̄

Comments and references : HGC 21, LDC 19, FDCP 2. DCE 6 adds also Bur. -qhóquṭ `crop, gizzard; larynx' (one of the Bur. reflexes can in fact go back to *xq̇arV́ / *xq̇axq̇arV́ q.v.)

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *gwV̄́ntV

Meaning: hole, anus

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *gwV̄ntV

Yenisseian: *koʔd (~g-,-ɔ-)

Comments and references : Cf. *gɦwămdV̆.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *gwVrV

Meaning: enclosure

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *gwV̆rV

Sino-Tibetan: *KʷĕrH

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *G_wVmV