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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phŭH
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: swell
Chinese: 阜 *bhuʔ big mound; big and fat, abundant.
Tibetan: ãbu (p. ãbus) to open, unfold (of flowers).
Burmese: phuh to swell, pu to bulge.
Kachin: pu2 to bloom, bud.
Lushai: KC *pu bud.
Comments: Mikir iŋpu open, dilate, phu bud; Nung phu open, nam-phu blossom, bud. Bodo ha-pǝw mound. Sh. 65, 407; Ben. 62; STEDT 138-140 *ʔ-bǝw. Cf. *bhǝ̆wH; also Karen *b̄Vʔ, Miji thai-bau, Konyak *bu 'fat'.
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