Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Pa]

Meaning: breast

Comments: STEDT 206-207 *pa: scattered reflexes (often reduplicated) in Deuri, Manchati, Qiang and Lolo.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pa ( ~ b-; -k)

Meaning: magician, divine

Tibetan: ãba magician, sorcerer, conjurer.

Kachin: čǝbaʔ³, šǝbaʔ³, (H) ba to divine.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *paH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: father

Tibetan: a-pha, pha father.

Burmese: a-phaʔ father.

Lushai: pa a father.

Kiranti: *pä́, *pä́p

Comments: BG: Bodo -pa father, Garo pha, ǝpa. Cf. *Pă 'man, male' (perhaps the same root).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *PaH

Meaning: palm (of hand)

Chinese: 把 *prāʔ handful; cf. also 扶 *pa, *ba breadth of 4 fingers.

Burmese: phaʔwah palm of hand, sole of foot.

Kachin: lǝpha², lǝphan² the palm of the hand.

Lushai: kut-phaʔ palm, sole.

Comments: Mikir ri-pak, (Sh.) lak-po; BG: Garo dźak-pha, Bodo apá sole of foot, palm; Moshang pha. Sh. 57, 427; Ben. 100. ?Cf. PAN *da(m)pa 'palm of hand, sole of foot'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *PăH

Meaning: respect

Chinese: 父, 甫 *paʔ honorific 2-d part of personal names; great.

Tibetan: dba reverence, respect.

Burmese: pah classifier for saints or Buddhas, etc.; pa particle of respect.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Paj]

Meaning: placenta

Tibetan: be-snabs vaginal mucus at childbirth

Comments: STEDT 288-289, listing besides Tib. Mikir pe 'womb', Garo bi-bil id., Chepang payʔ 'placenta', Limbu sara-phe 'womb', sai-be-ra 'placenta'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *PăjH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: that, beyond

Chinese: 彼 *pajʔ that, they.

Tibetan: pha beyond, onward, farther on; the other side.

Burmese: paʔ beyond, tǝpah other, ǝpah close to, by the side of.

Comments: Bodo bí that one, bǝ́y that one (away). See Luce 4; Coblin 147. Cf. also OCh. 夫 *ba this; Angami Naga *pV 'one'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pă[l]

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: fence

Chinese: 藩 *par fence, to fence in; 畔 *b_ān-s field boundary

Kachin: nphan¹ a fence, as around a field.

Lushai: pal a fence, a palisade, a hedge, KC *pal.

Comments: BG: Dimasa, Garo bāri, Bodo bari place, garden; Kham bar a fence or partition, bar^Lna a wall; Trung pel¹ wall. Sh. 409, 427. [Probably 2 roots: one with *-r, one with *-ɫ).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pal

Meaning: frog

Tibetan: sbal frog.

Burmese: phah frog, LB *spah.

Comments: Cf. Bodo em-bǝ́w frog; Kham pǝ̀^L-yū frog. Sh. 75; Ben. 21; Luce 5.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pam

Meaning: subdue; be subdued, remain

Chinese: 貶 *p(r)amʔ to diminish.

Tibetan: ãpham (p. pham) be beaten, conquered (OT: be diminished, reduced, found wanting, of lesser quality).

Lepcha: bam remain

Kiranti: Yamphu pen- 'sit' (?)

Comments: Thankur pǝm sit, Meithei pham id.; Garo bam-at subdue, bam submit; sit; Kanauri bam be defeated, pham defeat, win; Kham phùm to sit crouched. Ben. 125; Coblin 63-64.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pan

Meaning: ornament

Tibetan: phan hanging ornaments.

Burmese: pan wear earrings, be adorned with jewels.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *păŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: side, back side

Chinese: 方 *paŋ side.

Tibetan: ? bjaŋ North

Burmese: phaŋ buttocks, bottom, behind.

Kachin: phaŋ¹ behind.

Lushai: paŋ the body; the side, the flank; KC *paŋ-.

Kiranti: *póŋ / *póm

Comments: Rawang -phāŋ. Sh. 401.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Paŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dung

Tibetan: sbaŋs dung of larger animals.

Burmese: bhaŋ dung, excrements (OB phaŋ).

Comments: Ben. 21; Luce 74.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Paŋ]

Meaning: tooth

Comments: Kanauri baŋ; Miri i-pa(ŋ). Cf. Abor ne-pāŋ mouth. Sh. 204. Cf. PAN *ipen, *nipen, *ŋipen 'tooth', perhaps also PAA *mVń 'tooth'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Paŋ]

Meaning: fat

Chinese: 肪 *b(h)aŋ fat

Comments: Cf. Karen *b̄waN.3L 'fat'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Par

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pungent

Tibetan: ber sharpness, pungency (of spices, spirits etc.).

Burmese: phan be tart, pungent (of taste).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Păr (~ w-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: paw, claw

Chinese: 蹯 *b_ar paw.

Tibetan: spar the grasping hand, paw, claw; a handful of.

Kiranti: *brep-co ?

Comments: Thankur pǝr finger-breadth, cipǝr to catch with nails. A possible derivate is Tib. bran finger, toe (cf. also Balti phran-zuk; Kanauri pra-ts; Thebor braŋ finger, pra-tś thumb, see Sh. 137).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pat

Meaning: vomit

Burmese: phat to vomit, LB *phatx.

Kachin: n-phat³ vomit.

Kiranti: *pä(s) ( ~ *b(h)-)

Comments: Matisoff 1972: 35. Coblin 130 compares OCh. 發 *pat (see under *P(r)ŏt).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pā

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thin

Chinese: 薄 *bāk thin.

Tibetan: ba-spu a little hair (spu), phra thin, fine; minute; phran little, small, trifling.

Burmese: pah, LB *pax thin.

Kachin: pha², čǝpha⁴ thin.

Lushai: pan thin (as paper), weak (as tea), KC *r-pa: Tiddim pā́ thin.

Lepcha: kă-ba a kind of cloth formed of single twist

Comments: Yamphu phäk; Tsangla ba-bo; BG: Dimasa ba-, Garo ba-, Bodo bá be thin; Rawang ba-, Trung ba². Sh. 49, 118; Ben. 19; Mat. 181.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pāj

Meaning: wave

Chinese: 波 *pāj wave, surge.

Tibetan: rba wave.

Comments: Gong 62.