Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋā̆H ( / *ŋā̆-k, *ŋā̆-ŋ, r-)

Meaning: meet, match; oppose

Chinese: 御 *ŋraks drive a chariot; govern, direct, *ŋrāks meet, welcome, provide against, 迓 *ŋrāks to meet, receive, 逆 *ŋrak go to meet, oppose, 迎 *ŋraŋ to meet, 晤 *ŋāks to meet, 悟 *ŋāks to oppose, 迕 *ŋāks to go against, 禦 *ŋ(r)aʔ to withstand, hinder.

Tibetan: mŋa might, dominion, to govern.

Burmese: ŋrah to meet, encounter [with a dialectal variant ńah id. ( > Jnp. ńa)]; ŋraŋh reject.

Kachin: mǝŋaʔ² to repel, as an attack, (H) ŋa wait.

Lushai: KC *ŋhāk to meet; (?) Lush. ṭaŋ deny.

Comments: Nung ŋyeŋ deny. Ben. 44; Sh. 407; Mat. 182; Bodman 175. An example of rich original word derivation (suffixed -k, -ŋ; prefixed ~ infixed r-). The meanings vary substantially, and one can not exclude a confusion of more than one root, but the reflexes in daughter languages are very hard to separate from each other.