Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *răj
Meaning: a k. of demon
Tibetan: gre a species of demons, ãdre goblin, devil, gnome.
Kachin: gǝrai2-wa1, gǝrai2-gǝsaŋ2 the Supreme God, supreme being.
Lushai: ṭai to exorcize by the use of incantation, KC *t?-rai.
Comments: Sh. 408; Peiros-Starostin 213. Cf. PAA *ra:j 'spirit, demon' (Peiros 1998, 227).