Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phV̆r

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: be prominent, rise, tumulus

Chinese: 墳 *bhǝr tumulus, raised bank (also 濆 *bhǝr river bank); great, *bhǝrʔ swell up.

Tibetan: ãbur to rise, be prominent; to increase; prominence, protuberance, tumour; spor (p., f. spar) to lift up.

Kiranti: *bhǝ̀r

Comments: Cf. *bhăr. Dhimal bar-ka, Mikir par big, BG: Garo bal-, bari- big, Bodo par high bank of the river. See Sh. 409. Cf. also Tib. ãphjur to heap up, to mount.