Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *līŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: field

Chinese: 田 *lhīn 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'.