Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[a]ŋ

Meaning: sick, sickness

Chinese: 痒 *lhaŋ be sick, suffering, 恙 *lhaŋs disease, disaster.

Burmese: kjaŋ be withered (of leaves); be aching (of body parts).

Kachin: khreŋ¹ to have lost taste or strength.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lăŋH

Meaning: image, shape

Chinese: 像 *lhaŋʔ image, resemble, depict.

Kachin: khraŋ² a shape, figure, form.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lăŋH

Meaning: a big animal (ox, elephant)

Chinese: 象 *lhaŋʔ elephant ( > Burm. с́haŋ).

Tibetan: glaŋ ox; elephant.

Kachin: u-taŋ¹ a bullock, a steer.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*lap]

Meaning: forget

Kachin: mǝlap² to forget.

Comments: BG: Dimasa balau, Bodo baw to forget; Ben. 73.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lăp

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: leaf

Chinese: 葉 *lap leaf, foliage.

Tibetan: ldeb leaf, sheet.

Burmese: ǝhlap petal of a flower.

Kachin: lap² leaf.

Lushai: lēp the bud (of a cotton flower); the fruit (of a yam).

Lepcha: lóp a large leaf of tree

Kiranti: *l[ä́]p wing

Comments: Rawang śǝlap leaves for packing food; Trung lăp¹ leaf; Bahing lab; Kanauri kho-lăp 'bark'. Sh. 138; Ben. 70. The Tib. and Lush. forms were influenced by *ƛēp flat (q. v.).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lăt

Meaning: fatigue, exhausted

Chinese: 勩 *lats toil, fatigue, sufferance.

Tibetan: lad weak, faint, exhausted.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lat

Meaning: to pull

Chinese: 抴 *lats to pull

Kiranti: *làt to pull out

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *law (~ -ɨw, -iw)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: body, side of body

Tibetan: lus body, lhu part, portion of the body of an animal; glo (Ld. ldo) the side, esp. of body.

Burmese: kjawh the back.

Lepcha: ljŭ, lŭ, lju the body

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lā ( ? ƛ-)

Meaning: pass, road

Chinese: 涂 *Ł_ā (~ l_-) path on bank of a canal, 途 *Ł_ā (~ l_-) road.

Tibetan: la mountain pass.

Kiranti: *ḷä́ 'to go'

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lāj

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pour; watery, thin (of fluid)

Chinese: 沱 *lāj to flow.

Tibetan: sla thin (of fluids).

Burmese: kjajh be not thick, thin, as liquid; hlaj 'to pour from one vessel into another'

Lushai: leiʔ to pour (as fluid), pour out.

Lepcha: tă-ljă, tă-ljă dă the water under earth

Comments: Here LB *li 'swim' (?).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lāj (s-)

Meaning: other

Chinese: 他 *slāj another.

Burmese: ta-lij someone.

Lushai: hlei (hleiʔ) compared with the other.

Comments: Cf. Tani *alo 'that', Mikir la 'that, this', Naga *lV 'that; one'. Here probably a number of TB forms meaning 'one': Karen *lV, Tujia la.3, Gurung *K-ri (if < *K-li).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[ā]m

Meaning: speak, pronounce

Chinese: 談 *lhām, 譚 *lhǝ̄m speak.

Burmese: khjamh (OB klaṃ) a religious writing or book.

Kachin: nlem², (H) lem be talkative.

Lushai: lam to pronounce, to articilate, to call.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *l[ā̆]ŋ

Meaning: stroll, go to and fro

Chinese: 翔 *lhaŋ go to and fro.

Lushai: lēŋ to stroll, go for a stroll, lāŋ (lān) go and return the same day.

Comments: Cf. perhaps Idu a.3 lioŋ.2, Dulong mɨ.31 lɔŋ.53 'road'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *le (~ ƛ-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: penis, male

Tibetan: mʒ́e penis.

Burmese: lih ( / rih) penis, LB *lix.

Kachin: uli³ a bull kept for breeding.

Lushai: KC *hlui masculine of fowls.

Kiranti: *lè coire, *bh-lè penis

Comments: BG: Dimasa li-dao-di testicle (Sh. 443), Garo ri-gaŋ; Kanauri kut-li; Bahing bli penis. Sh. 407, Ben. 62. STEDT 311-317 *m-ley 'penis'. Part of the Kiranti forms (Sunw. lū-, cf. also Bahing lu-, Bantawa lü-; unclear in any case is Kul. lui-) may in fact go back to *lŏ 'desire; copulate' q.v.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lej ( ~ ƛ-, -a-)

Meaning: adorn

Burmese: khjaj to adorn.

Kachin: sumli¹ to adorn.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*lej ~ ƛ-]

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a k. of small animal (squirrel, rabbit)

Lushai: hlei, thehlei a squirrel, KC *k-r(?)-hlei.

Lepcha: kă-li a sp. of squirrel; generic name for a squirrel

Comments: Rgyarung ka-li, ka-lie rabbit. Sh. 121.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *le(k)

Meaning: twist, braid

Tibetan: sle, lhe (p. lhas) to twist, to knit.

Kachin: khriʔ² to braid, (H) mǝkhri a braid.

Comments: For Tib. cf. also OC 紽 l(h)āj bundle, many-threaded tresses.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lĕk

Meaning: good, easy

Chinese: 易 *leks easy, negligent, at ease.

Tibetan: legs good, happy; neat, elegant.

Kachin: khrak³ be good.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 87.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lek (C-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: small

Kachin: ǝgjek³ dwarfish.

Lushai: thlek be small.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lek / *leŋ

Meaning: change

Chinese: 易 *lek change.

Lushai: thleŋ to change, exchange for.

Kiranti: *léŋ / *lék

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *lVk 'exchange', Tai *lɛ:k id., PAN *balik 'turn, change'.