Sino-Caucasian etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́ƛV

Meaning: to pierce

North Caucasian: *=Vƛ_V

Burushaski: *-l-

Comments and references : In ST cf. also *lon ( ~ ƛ-,-u-) `to bore, pierce' and *ƛen `to pierce' (different suffixed formations?).

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V̆́ƛ̣V

Meaning: to copulate

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=üƛ̣_V

Sino-Tibetan: *le (~ ƛ-)

Yenisseian: *beʔl (~w-,-r)

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=Vƛ̣V́(ŋ)

Meaning: to wear; a k. of clothing

North Caucasian: *=Vƛ̣V

Sino-Tibetan: *lVŋ ( ~ ƛ-)

Yenisseian: *ʔalVŋ (~x-)

Burushaski: *w-él- / *b-él-

Comments and references : Somewhat differently in HGC 33, WFR 73 (compared with NC *HŁünV `hem (of a garment)'). Final *-ŋ in PST and PY may be an original deverbative suffix. Cf. FU *älV 'lap' (?)

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́ƛ̣Vŋ

Meaning: to wash

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=Vƛ̣_Vn

Sino-Tibetan: *ƛēŋ ( ~ -ā-)

Burushaski: *-hált-

Comments and references : DCE 33.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́ƛ̣V(w)

Meaning: to pound, strike

North Caucasian: *=Vƛ̣_Vw

Sino-Tibetan: *ƛɨak (~ -ua-)

Burushaski: *-ltá-n-

Basque: *labur̄

Comments and references : DCE 32.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́mć̣V(r)

Meaning: to stand, stay (?)

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=Vmć̣_Vr

Sino-Tibetan: *ćhiǝ̄H ( ~ ʒ́h-)

Basque: *e=sar̄i

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=Vmƛ̣V

Meaning: to come, go

North Caucasian: *=Vmƛ̣V

Sino-Tibetan: *ƛǝ̄(H)

Burushaski: *-ltá-

Basque: *Vr̄dV

Comments and references : DCE 34. In PNC cf. also *=ǝ̄rƛ_Ŭ 'go, walk, enter' (see BCD 22). Cf. also Bsq. *ür̄ten (258).

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VmVn

Meaning: to give

Yenisseian: *pVn-

Basque: *eman

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́nƛ̣V

Meaning: all

North Caucasian: *=Vnƛ̣V ( ~ -ƛ̣_-) 'all'

Sino-Tibetan: *ƛăŋ

Yenisseian: *bɨʔĺ-

Basque: *bil

Comments and references : cf. *HVƛ̣V

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́nŁe

Meaning: two / four / eight

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *bǖnŁ_e (~-a)

Sino-Tibetan: *lĭj (p-)

Burushaski: *alto

Basque: *lau

Comments and references : Cf. PAN *walu 'eight'.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VŋV

Meaning: to speak

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: *ŋăH / *ŋăk

Yenisseian: *b- / *-ŋ- `speak'

Comments and references : G. Starostin...

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VrʎẮ-

Meaning: to boil

North Caucasian: *=VrʎĂn

Basque: *hera-ki

Comments and references : Etymological comparison suggested by John Bengtson.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V̄rƛ̣_Vr

Meaning: to be afraid

North Caucasian: *=V̄rƛ̣_V(r)

Basque: *b=eldur̄

Comments and references : FDCP 4.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V̄́rswE

Meaning: to cut (in parts), divide

North Caucasian: *=V̄rs_wE

Basque: *Husi

Comments and references : Etymological comparison suggested by John Bengtson.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VršḖ

Meaning: to rot, to ferment

North Caucasian: *=VršĒ

Basque: *b=uśte-l

Comments and references : Etymological comparison suggested by John Bengtson.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VswV́

Meaning: to take

North Caucasian: *=[i]swV

Yenisseian: *ʔus- (~x-, -ū-)

Burushaski: *sú-

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V̄[ṭ]wV

Meaning: water

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=V̄ṭwV

Sino-Tibetan: *tujH

Yenisseian: *ʔut- ( ~ x-)

Burushaski: *thi

Basque: *i=tur̄i

Comments and references : NSC 63 *-ṭwV, SCE 101.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=VṭwV(ŋ)

Meaning: to sit

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: WC *ṭʷV

Sino-Tibetan: *tūŋ / *tūk

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V́xGĂl-

Meaning: to cut, knife

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

North Caucasian: *=VG_Ăl

Sino-Tibetan: *giǝ̆r

Comments and references : Different in WFR 7.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=V̆xkV̆́

Meaning: quick

North Caucasian: *=ä̆χV

Sino-Tibetan: *kǝ̆k (~ g-,q-,G-)

Yenisseian: *dǝ(ʔ)q-, *qaq-, *ʔǝ(ʔ)q-

Burushaski: *haqhái

Comments and references : +5th tone in Ket derivates may reflect *-ʔ- (which would contradict lax type in NC), but may also be a misrecording; lack of -ʔ- in the reduplicated qaq- is probably significant.