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Sino-Tibetan etymology : Search within this database Proto-Sino-Tibetan: "*li{n|}" | Query method: Match substring
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *liŋ (~-iǝ-) (p-)
Meaning: pus, abscess
Tibetan: lhiŋ tumor filled with matter, an abscess.
Burmese: pran ́ pus, LB *pliŋ ́.
Lepcha: fren, frań boil, ulcer (?)
Comments: Pwo, Sgaw phi pus. Ben 143.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *liŋ (~-iǝŋ)
Meaning: round, rotate
Tibetan: liŋs quite round or globular.
Burmese: lań to turn around, hlańʔ to cause to turn around.
Comments: Cf. PAN *baliŋ 'turn, revolve'.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *liŋ
Meaning: mount, a k. of vehicle
Burmese: hlańh vehicle.
Kachin: leŋ2 a vehicle, a wheel.
Comments: Cf. *lǝ̆ŋ 'rise, ascend'. Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *liŋ ( ~ -iǝŋ; k-)
Meaning: tube
Tibetan: gliŋ fife; flageolet.
Burmese: kjań tube closed at one side (OB klań).
Comments: Ben. 41.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līŋ
Meaning: hunt
Tibetan: liŋs a hunting or chase.
Comments: Coblin 96. Maybe the same root as *līŋ field ("field hunting").
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līŋ
Meaning: field
Tibetan: gliŋ island, continent, region, country; źiŋ field, ground, soil, arable land.
Burmese: krańh dry land, ground (OB krań ).
Kachin: mǝliŋ1 a forest, wood.
Lepcha: ljaŋ the earth
Comments: BG: Garo buruŋ , briŋ forest, Dimasa ha-bliŋ field in second year of cultivation; Moshang, Namsangia liŋ forest, Rawang mǝliŋ id. Simon 27; Sh. 435; Ben. 40, 80-81; Peiros-Starostin 212. Matisoff (Mat. 176) compares the Burm. form with Jnp. kriŋ1 firm, stable kriŋ1 -muŋ2 hill (see *ƛiŋ). Cf. Austric: Yao liŋ 'field(s)', Tai plɛ:ŋ 'a plot of land'.
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