Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ph]ūl (~-ɫ)

Meaning: bubble up

Kachin: pun² to bubble up.

Lushai: KC *phūl (?) to bubble up.

Comments: Bodo to-pǝ́y to produce bubbles on the surface of water. Sh.409.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phūt (~-ō-)

Meaning: dawn, morning

Chinese: 昢 *phǝ̄t sun- or moonrise.

Kachin: phot¹ tomorrow, ǯǝpho² morning.

Comments: ? Kham pǝ^Lrāti tomorrow.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phV̄k

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: stick

Chinese: 朴 *phōk rod, stick.

Tibetan: phog beam, rafter (cf. also dbjig, dbjug stick).

Kachin: lǝpaʔ¹ rafter.

Comments: Cf. also OC 欂 *pāk 'pole'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phVp

Meaning: to suck, kiss

Kachin: pup kiss

Kiranti: *phíp suck

Comments: STEDT 233-236 (with various reflexes from Tani, Miju, Kuki-Naga, Manchati, Qiang and LB, but with a hardly justifiable division of this expressive root into *m-bu[p/t/k] and *pip).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phV̆r

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: be prominent, rise, tumulus

Chinese: 墳 *bhǝr tumulus, raised bank (also 濆 *bhǝr river bank); great, *bhǝrʔ swell up.

Tibetan: ãbur to rise, be prominent; to increase; prominence, protuberance, tumour; spor (p., f. spar) to lift up.

Kiranti: *bhǝ̀r

Comments: Cf. *bhăr. Dhimal bar-ka, Mikir par big, BG: Garo bal-, bari- big, Bodo par high bank of the river. See Sh. 409. Cf. also Tib. ãphjur to heap up, to mount.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[pi]

Meaning: burn, set fire

Comments: Tsangla phi set fire to; Hrusso B phĭ (A) id. Sh. 171. Cf. also Tani *pi 'dry'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *piǝ̆r (~b-)

Meaning: drum

Chinese: 鼖 *b_ǝr big military drum.

Kachin: bren¹ a military drum.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Piǝ̆rH

Meaning: annoyed, downcast

Chinese: 憤 *b_ǝrʔ full of annoyance; full of dissatisfied eagerness.

Burmese: phinh be downcast, woebegone.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Piǝ̆t (~ w-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: cold

Chinese: 冹 *pǝt cold, freezing.

Tibetan: phjid to freeze.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Piǝ̄ŋ (~ w-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pitcher

Chinese: 缾 *bēŋ pitcher.

Tibetan: phiŋ earthenware pitcher, cup.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pĭj

Meaning: give

Chinese: 畀 *pijs (~ -ts) give.

Tibetan: sbjin (p., i. bjin) to give, to bestow, to deliver.

Burmese: pijh to give, LB *pijx.

Lushai: pe (pēk) to give, offer, KC *peʔ (?).

Kiranti: *bì

Comments: Nung biŋ; Rai bi-ŋa; Miri bi; Dhimal pi. Simon 21; Sh. 49; Ben. 102.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pĭ(j) (~ w-)

Meaning: animal of pray

Chinese: 貔 *b_ij a wild animal, possibly some k. of panther or leopard.

Tibetan: dbji lynx.

Comments: Sh. 57; Gong 63.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pĭjH

Meaning: grandmother

Chinese: 妣 *pijʔ deceased mother.

Tibetan: phji grandmother.

Burmese: phijh grandmother, LB *phijx.

Kachin: (H) čhjiŋ-phji a very old mother.

Lushai: pi a grandmother.

Comments: BG: Garo a-bi, Bodo bǝ́y grandmother; Kanauri a-pi; Bahing, Vayu pi-pi. Sh. 132, Ben 21.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *PijH

Meaning: scabs

Chinese: 疕 *pijʔ, *phejʔ head disease; baldness, scabs on head.

Burmese: ǝphijh scabs, scabies.

Lepcha: a-pi 'bark'

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pĭ(j)H

Meaning: compare, equal

Chinese: 比 *pijʔ compare; equal, similar.

Tibetan: dpe pattern, model, symmetry.

Burmese: OB phi (Luce).

Comments: See Luce 13.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pijH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: female

Chinese: 牝 *b_ijʔ, *b_inʔ female ( < *b_ijʔ + -n).

Kachin: (Ben.) wi female affix, šǝwi female.

Lushai: pui female affix.

Kiranti: *bìn

Comments: Ben. 46. Cf. Naga *pui 'woman'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[Pik]

Meaning: skin, bark

Kachin: phyiʔ² skin, bark.

Comments: PG *phiC bark (n.); Kham pī^L to scrape, peel; to skin (as knees); Mru pi skin; Karen *phiʔ.4L id. Sh. 62.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pik

Meaning: end

Chinese: 畢 *pit end, finish.

Burmese: pać to finish doing smth.

Kiranti: *bek

Comments: Cf. Sunwar bēk- 'die'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pĭk

Meaning: shoot

Chinese: 彃 *pit shoot.

Burmese: pać throw, shoot, LB *pYk.

Comments: Luce 59.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*pil]

Meaning: sink

Lushai: pil to sink, be submerged, under.

Comments: Bodo du-bǝy to sink (tr.).