Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ce

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: threaten, scold

Tibetan: rʒe to threaten.

Kachin: (H) ǯe to cause, as a quarrel, kǝče to scold (cf. also mǝca¹ to swear, to curse).

Comments: Cf. *ćĕlH.

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HV̄cV

Meaning: to scold

Sino-Tibetan: *ce

Yenisseian: *ʔīs-

Yenisseian etymology :

Proto-Yenisseian: *ʔīs-

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: to swear, curse

Ket: di:śǝ⁴ (North.); South. diś⁴

Yug: d́ɨ:^hs / d́i:^hs

Comments: ССЕ 195. Pump. (Срсл.) biś "curse" is probably a Yug form; this allows us to regard d- and b- as prefixed elements (quite common in Yenisseian verb) and reconstruct *ʔīs-. Werner (1, 191) prefers to regard biś as a writing error instead of *diś [I would add - a rather bizarre writing error, never encountered elsewhere] and to reconstruct <*d'ɨʔǝsǝ>.

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