Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[ō]n

Meaning: straight

Kachin: mǝlan³ to straighten.

Lushai: tlōn straight, straight and long.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōŋ

Meaning: cave, cavern

Chinese: 洞 *Ł_ōŋs cavern [since Han].

Burmese: hlǝuŋ a cave, niche.

Kachin: ginloŋ¹ a cave.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōŋ / *ƛōn

Meaning: stupid

Chinese: 侗 *ƛ(h)ōŋ stupid, ignorant.

Tibetan: blun dull, stupid, fool; ldoŋ (p. ldoŋs, loŋ) to become blind, be blind, mdoŋs be blind.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōŋ / *ƛōn (p-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: tube

Chinese: 筒 *Łōŋ tube.

Tibetan: lćuŋ thimble, doŋ-po, ldoŋ-po tube, any hollow cylindrical vessel.

Burmese: prauŋh, prwan, prwaj (OB plwan) tube.

Kachin: nthuŋ⁴ a bamboo water vessel (pjoŋ³ a tube, a pipe, (H) bjoŋ id. probably < Burm.).

Comments: Coblin 153. Cf. Austric: PAA *lVŋ 'pot', PAN *balaŋa 'pan, pot'. paluŋ 'feeding trough'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōt

Meaning: free, let loose

Chinese: 脫 *ƛ_ōt, *Ł_ōt to peel off, let loose.

Tibetan: lhod loose, relaxed, glod to loosen, relax; to comfort, console (perhaps a different root, cf. OCh. 悅 *Łot pleased, glad).

Burmese: lwat be at liberty, free, unrestrained, kjwat be freed from, khjwat to release, free, emancipate, LB *-lwat.

Kachin: lot² to escape, (H) khjot to banish, expel, exile; tat³ to liberate.

Lushai: hlut (LS) to take pleasure in.

Lepcha: lŭt to liberate, to save, to ransom; lut to uncover, to strip off, as skin, bark, thatch, to turn over as leaf of book; lját to get loose

Kiranti: *plut(-s) to loosen, *lót pull out

Comments: Sh. 40; Ben. 48; Mat. 199; Gong 48. Cf. PAA *lǝt / *lot 'run away'; *lVt 'to peel, pull away', PAN *-lus (see Sag 37).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōt ( ~ -ū-)

Meaning: snatch

Chinese: 奪, 敓 *Ł_ōt rob, take away, snatch.

Kachin: (H) khrut to snatch.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛuak

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: back

Tibetan: ltag the back part of the neck, nape; the back.

Burmese: kjauk back of an animal, LB *klukx.

Lushai: thluk the back of the head, the occiput.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛuan

Meaning: climb

Chinese: 緣 *Łon (~-r) to climb (a tree).

Lushai: lōn to climb, ascend, mount.

Lepcha: klun to climb

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[ua]n

Meaning: follow, pass along

Chinese: 緣 *Łon (~-r) go along, follow.

Kachin: (H) gǝlen, khǝlen to pass along, as from one to another.

Lushai: lōn to cause to pass from one to another in succession.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[u]aŋ

Meaning: polished, glossy

Burmese: lwaŋ be polished, glossy.

Lushai: tliaŋ (tlian) be polished or glossy.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛŭH / *ƛŭk (?)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hand, arm, wing

Chinese: 手 *ƛhuʔ hand, arm.

Tibetan: śog wing, wing-feather.

Comments: [For Ch. perhaps better Tib. hlu 'limb']

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛŭŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: insect, worm

Chinese: 蟲 *Łhuŋ insect; reptile.

Tibetan: lćoŋ tadpole.

Burmese: kjǝuŋh locust.

Lepcha: tă-ljaŋ bŭ a spec. of worm: it is said to convey itself into the tails of cows to render them brittle

Comments: PG *pu^L-luŋ caterpillar; BG: Garo dzoʔoŋ, Dimasa yuŋ; Banpara tśoŋ caterpillar; Trung bǝ³-liŋ¹ fly. Sh. 435; Ben. 34; Coblin 98.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛŭŋ ( ~ -ŏ-)

Meaning: fall

Tibetan: ltuŋ to fall, to fall off, down, into.

Burmese: ? hlwaŋʔ to throw

Kachin: gǝdoŋ¹ to fall.

Lushai: thlok fly (KC *lOŋ)

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[u]p

Meaning: dive, submerge

Tibetan: lćeb go to kill one's self, esp. by a leap into the water or down a precipice, but not every kind of suicide.

Burmese: mrup (OB mlup) be submerged, overwhelmed, swallowed up.

Kachin: lup² bury, grave; to enter, (H) phuŋ-lip dive.

Lushai: KC *lup bury.

Lepcha: lap to bury

Comments: BG: Garo tśi rip dive, srip sink, Dimasa lip ~ lup dive, gilib ~ gulub drown; Rawang lip bury; Zeme Naga kelap 'swim'. Sh. 405; Ben. 80. Cf. Austric: PAA *lɨp 'immerse, sink', PAN *celeb, *delep, *le(p)lep, *teleb, *-leb 'sink, submerge'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛV̄ŋ

Meaning: red

Chinese: 赨 *Ł_ūŋ red.

Kachin: (H) dǝliŋ red, brown (of animals).

Lepcha: lók, lŭk-lók-lă, rŭk-lók-lă red

Comments: Cf. also Kar. *lV(ŋ) / *pRVŋ 'black', Tujia lan.3 [ka.1] id., Gurung *mlaŋ.T id. Cf. Austric: PAA *lVŋ 'black', PAN *aluŋ 'shade, shadow' (also *liŋaw 'shadow'), *beleŋ, *buluŋ 'black'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛVp

Meaning: singe

Tibetan: gźob singeing.

Kachin: gǝlip³ to singe, (H) kǝlip, kǝtip.

Kiranti: *lä́p

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lă

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: lift, above

Chinese: 舁 *la lift.

Tibetan: bla over, above.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *la

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: leg, foot

Tibetan: brla the thigh.

Kiranti: *lV

Comments: BG: Garo dźa, Dim. ya foot; Midzhu pla, Namsangia da, Moshang ya, Miri ǝle, Chepang la foot. Sh. 183; Ben. 34.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lă (m-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: arrow

Chinese: 射 *liaks shoot with bow, *liak hit with bow and arrow.

Tibetan: mda arrow.

Burmese: hmrah (OB mla) arrow, LB *m[h]lax.

Kachin: pǝla³ arrow, (Mat.) mǝla³ id.

Kiranti: *[bh]là

Comments: PG *mjV; BG: Dimasa bă-la, Garo bra; Kham mwī^L; Hor lda; Rawang thǝma, Trung tǝ³-ma¹; Bahing bla; Vayu blo; Magari mya; Newari bala; Tangkhul mǝla. Sh.58, 407; Ben. 111; Luce 5.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lă (s-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: easy, slow

Chinese: 舒 *sla slowly, leisurely, easy, relax.

Tibetan: sla easy.

Comments: Cf. *lV̆j.