Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Cǝ̆

Meaning: love

Chinese: 慈 *ʒ_ǝ affectionate, loving, 字 *ʒ_ǝs to love, fondle.

Tibetan: mʒa to love.

Burmese: (Ben.) ća have tender regard for another.

Kachin: kǝ.31 ča.33 good

Comments: Ben. 28; Bod. 165. STEDT 357-358 *m-dza-k (but note that *ćāk q.v. seems to be a separate root). Cf. also: Tujia tsha.3, Naga *cV, Magar se, Kham ca, Sichuan *ṣV 'good'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Cǝ̆

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: name, concept, form

Chinese: 字 *ʒ_ǝs name, family name, concept [Late Zhou].

Tibetan: zo, bzo figure, picture, form.

Burmese: ća writing, letter, paper, document, literature.

Comments: Luce 2. The meaning "character" is late in Chinese, so the Burmese word could be borrowed from Chinese. However, when the meaning "character" evolved in Chinese (around Han time), the character must have been pronounced as *cɨ̀ with falling tone, which hardly explains the phonetic shape ća in Burmese. Tib. bzo is also not explained by the loan theory. We should rather regard the word as Sino-Tibetan, but probably dialectal in Old Chinese, since the meaning 'name, concept' appears only during Late Zhou. The earlier attested meaning 'love, breed, nurture' has certainly nothing to do with the root under consideration: see PST *Că love.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćǝ̆H

Meaning: make

Chinese: 仕 *ʒ́_rǝʔ to work, serve, office; 事 *ʒ́_rǝʔs affair.

Tibetan: ãćha (p. bćas, ãćhas, f. bća, i. ćhos) to make, prepare.

Kachin: (H) ča to pile or lay, as stones; to build, as stone-wall, to build, as scaffold; mǝča² a watch-tower in a paddy field.

Lushai: ? sa (sak) to build or erect (as house etc.).

Comments: Coblin 148 compares OCh. 事 and Tib. rʒas thing, matter, object.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćǝ̆jH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: elder sister or brother

Chinese: 姊 *ćǝjʔ elder sister.

Tibetan: a-ćhe an elder sister of a female person.

Lushai: KC *tśei elder brother.

Comments: PG *cyo elder brother. Sh. 53; Coblin 164.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćǝw (-t)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: water, wet, scoop

Tibetan: ćhu water, bćud moisture, juice, sap; ãćhu (p. bćus, f. bću, i. ćhus) to ladle or scoop (water).

Burmese: ćǝw be wet, moist, LB *ćǝw; ćwat, ćhwat wet, moist.

Kachin: ǯo³ pour into; čo² spoon.

Lushai: čiau wet and dirty.

Kiranti: Limbu cwaʔl water

Comments: Cf. STEDT 371-372 (listing basically only Tib. forms, but also having parallels from Naga and Qiang).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćǝ̄jH (~ ʒ́-)

Meaning: obstacle, hinder

Chinese: 濟 *ćǝ̄j-s to stop, cease; to ford, cross ("surmount an obstacle").

Burmese: ćhih to put up a barrier, stop, hinder.

Comments: For Ch. 'ford' cf. perhaps separately Burm. ćajh 'shallow place'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cha

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hot

Tibetan: cha hot, chad heat, chan hot, warm.

Burmese: LB *cha warm, hot.

Lushai: sa (sat) be hot, KC *sa.

Kiranti: *chò(-s)

Comments: PG *chà hot; Rgyarung -tse; Karen *šV 'burn'. Sh. 54; Ben. 27.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ćh]a(H)

Meaning: send

Chinese: 使 *srǝʔ send, employ (?)

Kachin: sa² to send; sa.33 come, go

Lushai: čaʔ send for.

Comments: Trung sɔ¹ to send; Kaike sɔw- 'come'. The initials are difficult (the Chinese form may fit here only if it was in fact *shrǝʔ, with a secondary desaspiration, observed also in several other cases).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cha(j)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: top, above

Tibetan: rce point, top, peak, summit.

Kachin: niŋca¹, nca¹ above.

Kiranti: (?) Kaling ʒhe-s 'mountain'

Comments: Here probably Angami Naga *cɨ, Mikir ake-the 'head'; Bodo *zǝʔ 'mountain', Naxi *ʒ́i, Trung *zi id.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cha(j)

Meaning: love, be pleasant

Tibetan: brce to love.

Burmese: sa be pleasant, as sound, weather.

Comments: The root should be probably equated with STEDT 369 *(t)si 'copulate, love' (represented in Maram, Meithei, Kanauri, Tujia etc.; Tib. brce, however, is not mentioned). Cf. also Pumi *ćhi 'good'. Cf. Austric: PAA *cVj 'beautiful, admirable', Thai chaj 'admirable', PAN *qasiq 'love, affection, pity'.

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