Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nek

Meaning: penis, copulate

Kachin: neʔ copulate

Lepcha: gar-nek, a-ŋak penis

Comments: STEDT 324 *[m/s]-nyak ~ nik, listing also Bengni ńak 'penis', Chepang luʔ-naʔ 'copulate' and Limbu nikmaʔ 'copulate'. Perhaps derived from *nej 'penis' q.v.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńĕkʷ

Meaning: weak

Chinese: 弱 *nhekʷ weak.

Tibetan: sńigs degenerated, grown worse (cf. also ńogs-bjiŋ too soft, ńog-ńoŋ soft, tender, weak - see Gong 49).

Burmese: ńać be upset, heartsick (cf. also hńwak small and weak).

Comments: Cf. Yamphu nä:kma, nä:ʔiye 'soft, tender, smooth'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nĕkʷ (/*mĕkʷ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a k. of rush, cane

Chinese: 蒻 *n_ekʷ rush used for making mats.

Tibetan: sńug reed, rush, bulrush; cf. also smjug, smjig cane, bamboo.

Burmese: hmjać bamboo sprouts, LB *smi[k].

Comments: Garo bimik sprout, germ, blade. Sh. 67; Ben. 56.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nemH

Meaning: low

Burmese: nimʔ be low, hnimʔ to make low.

Kachin: nem¹ low, not tall, šǝnem² to lower.

Lushai: hniam low, short.

Comments: Rawang ǝnem, śǝnem. Sh. 402, 407. Ben. 74.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nĕmH

Meaning: dye, dip

Chinese: 染 *namʔ (~-e-) to dye; to dip.

Burmese: hnamʔ to pervade, be diffused through or over all the parts.

Lushai: hnim to dip in water, immerse.

Comments: Cf. PAN *benem 'sink, drown'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[n]eŋ

Meaning: fashion, nature

Tibetan: ŋaŋ the nature, essentiality of a person etc.

Burmese: nańh method, example of action.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nĕw

Meaning: a k. of worm

Chinese: 蟯 *n_ew (?ŋ_-) intestinal worm.

Kachin: (H) kǝnu germs, grubs, minute worms.

Comments: Cf. Naga *nV 'snake' (?).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nējH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: elder female relative

Chinese: 嬭 *nhrējʔ mother (Chu word according to Guangyun).

Tibetan: a-ne father's sister; woman, female, (W) wife.

Kachin: ni¹ a mother-in-law.

Lushai: ni a paternal aunt, any paternal female relation who belongs to the same generation as one's father.

Lepcha: njí, njí-kuŋ (njo-kuŋ) grand-mother

Kiranti: *ní

Comments: Mikir ni; Tsangla a-nye; Garo ma-ni; Kanauri ǝ-ne; Rgyarung ǝni; Rawang ǝni, Trung a³-ni² aunt; Miri ǝnyi. Sh. 117; Ben. 69.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńēk

Meaning: press, push against

Burmese: hńać to squeeze (as if to extract something).

Lushai: nēk to throng, to press or push against; to rub against.

Comments: Cf. PAN *qeñek, *Reneg 'press down, squash'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nēkʷ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sink, immerse

Chinese: 溺 *nhēkʷ sink.

Tibetan: śnug (p. bsńugs, f. bsńug) to dig in, to immerse (also smjug id.).

Burmese: nać to sink into, be immersed; hnać to immerse.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nēkʷ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: filth, dirt

Chinese: 尿 *nēkʷ-s urine.

Tibetan: ńog soiled, dirted, ńag-ńog filth, dirt.

Burmese: nauk be dirty, foul, as water; not transparent, hnauk to stir up, so as to make turbid.

Kachin: ǝbut²-ǝnoʔ², (H) ǝno dirt.

Comments: Luce 81.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nēl (~ń-)

Meaning: ill, aching

Tibetan: ńel taken ill, sick.

Kachin: (H) ńin to feel heavy, kǝńin feel stiff and aching.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nēmH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: soft

Chinese: 染 *namʔ (~-emʔ) soft, flexible.

Burmese: nu-ńamʔ soft.

Kachin: (H) nam be soft, fluffy or downy.

Lushai: nēm soft, yielding; fine in texture; weak (as beer); KC *r-nēm.

Comments: Sh. 411; Coblin 136.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nēŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: how, where, interrogative pronoun

Chinese: 寧 *n_ēŋ why, how.

Burmese: nańh marker of special question.

Kachin: gǝnaŋ³ where?, gǝniŋ² id.

Comments: Cf. also OCh. 那 *n_āj how, what.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńēp

Meaning: to press

Chinese: 鑷 *nhēp to pinch, pincers

Burmese: hnip press

Kiranti: *ńep to press into, sow

Comments: Cf. *ńăp. (?) Cf. Dulong ŋa:p 'bite'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *n[ǝ]

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: time or place of, when

Chinese: 而 *nǝ particle by verbalizing, as, and yet, and. (?)

Tibetan: na year (?); stage of life, age; when.

Kachin: (H) na, čǝna to extend in time; cf. also na loc. or abl. suffix.

Lushai: niaʔ at the time of; when; -na the place of or where, instrument of or for etc.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nǝ̆H

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: ear

Chinese: 耳 *nhǝʔ ear.

Tibetan: rna ear.

Burmese: nah ear, LB *[n]ax ear, *sna to hear.

Kachin: na¹ the ear.

Lushai: KC *k-Na.

Lepcha: njor, a-njor ear, hon. njăn

Kiranti: *ńǝ

Comments: Thangkur khǝna ear; PG *na^L; BG: Garo na-tśil, Dimasa khana to hear; Moshang, Namsangia na; Rawang ǝna, Trung a³-na²; Kadu kǝnà, Bhramu kǝna. Simon 14; Sh. 38, 123, 430; Ben. 113; Luce 4.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nǝk ( ~ -a-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: black, dark

Tibetan: nag, gnag black, nog very dark, deep-black.

Burmese: nak be dark, LB *nak.

Kachin: (H) git-na black mould (git).

Lushai: KC *nak (?).

Comments: Atong -nak; Moshang, Namsangia -nyak; Trung naʔ¹. Sh. 38, 430; Ben. 88, 102. Coblin 45 compares OCh. 慝 *snhǝ̄k evil.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nǝ̆m

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: weave, cloth

Chinese: 紝 *n_ǝm, *n_rǝm to weave, 衽 *n_ǝmʔ, *n_ǝms skirts of robe, flaps, lapel.

Tibetan: snam woolen cloth.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 218. Cf. Tani: Shaiyang eki ra-nam 'bark'; Lepcha a-ńóm 'leaf'? Cf. PAN *añam 'plait' (? < ST, see Peiros 1998, 221).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńǝ̆m

Meaning: entrust

Chinese: 任 *nǝm to entrust.

Burmese: hńam to entrust (for a time).

Comments: Luce 42.