Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *ɫɨlHV

Meaning: boat

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: *lij ( ~ ƛ)

Yenisseian: *dɨl- (~ʒ-)

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lij ( ~ ƛ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: boat

Burmese: hlij boat, LB *s-lij.

Kachin: li¹ boat.

Lushai: KC *m-liy.

Comments: Pwo khli, Sgaw khli, Taungthu phri. Ben. 132; Mat. 171.

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *dɨl- (~ʒ-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a delved boat

Ket: dɨĺti:³ / dɨĺij⁶

Yug: dɨltij⁶

Comments: ССЕ 222. The second part of the compound is undoubtedly *t[i]χ- 'boat' q.v.; the meaning of the component dɨl- is unclear (formally translated as "child-boat" - thus also in Werner 1, 217 - but this may well be a folk etymology).

Long-range etymologies :

Borean (approx.) : LVLV

Meaning : boat

Sino-Caucasian : *ɫɨlHV

Austric : PAN *ili 'thwarts of a canoe'

Notes : PAN may be < ST.

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