Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ph(j)ăj
Meaning: divide, split; open
Tibetan: ãbjed (p., i. phje(d), phjes, f. dbje) to open.
Burmese: phajʔ to split off, be split.
Comments: BG: Dimasa bai break, sabai id., gabai broken, phai hatch, Garo be break, broken, pe break down, Bodo báy to break (into). Ben. 59; Luce 13. STEDT 129-130 *pay (but Lush. peʔ hardly belongs here, see *phjǝ̆k); cf. *p(h)raj(H).
