Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćăp

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: join, connect

Chinese: 接 *cap (?*ć-) connect, come in contact.

Tibetan: ćhabs together.

Burmese: ćap to join, unite, connect.

Kachin: čap³ to be on friendly terms; to adhere, as soot to a roof.

Lepcha: ǯŭp to be close together, to be near together

Comments: Garo tśap-tśap adjacent. Ben. 47. Coblin 57 compares also OCh. 際 *ćats juncture, connection < *ćaps, which is probably derived from 接 *ćap and makes probable the reconstruction of *ć- in OCh. (despite Starostin 1989, 238).