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Proto-Altaic: "*seri" | Query method: Match substring
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Proto-Altaic: *seri
Meaning: table, prop
Russian meaning: стол, подставка
Turkic: *serü
Mongolian: *sireɣe
Tungus-Manchu: *seri
Korean: *sìr'ǝ́i
Japanese: *sì(n)tí
Comments: Lee 1958, 116 (Kor.-TM), Лексика 520. The Kor.-Jpn. tones are irregular, perhaps because of some interaction between this root and {*si̯ṓjru}, *ši̯ṑri q. v.
Proto-Altaic: *sēri ( ~ z-, -ŕ-)
Meaning: thread, embroidery
Russian meaning: нить, вышивка
Tungus-Manchu: *serē-
Korean: *sīr
Comments: A Tung.-Kor. isogloss. It resembles the 'silk' / 'China' ser-/sen- Wanderwort, so it can actually go back to OC 纖 *sen (MC sjen) - but rendering MC -n with Kor. -r is extremely strange.
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