Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rĭ ( / *rĭn; s-)

Meaning: a k. of demon

Chinese: 峷 *srin a k. of demon.

Tibetan: sri, srin a sp. of devils, devouring esp. children.

Burmese: hrinh the power of becoming invisible.

Kachin: (H) šiŋran a supernatural appearance.

Lushai: hri evil spirit wich causes sickness and especially epidemics; disease, epidemics.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ri (~-e, -ej; -k)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: pus, gleet

Burmese: rih to rot, be rotten; riʔ be rotten, as a cloth.

Kachin: riʔ² to gleet, to suffer as from gonorrhoea, (H) ǝri gleet, gonorrhoea.

Comments: Miri tǝri ulcer, sore; Vayu ri decay; Ben. 62.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ri(a)j

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: water

Burmese: rij water, LB *rij.

Kachin: (H) numra water.

Comments: Tsangla ri; (?) cf. also Jnp. mǝriʔ³, numriʔ³ dew. See STEDT 376-378 *rǝy 'water, liquid'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riǝH

Meaning: draw, delineate, write

Chinese: 史 *srǝʔ a recorder, scribe; a record.

Tibetan: ri-mo figure, picture, painting, drawing, ãbri draw, write, bris picture.

Burmese: rijh to write, delineate, paint; rij to count, calculate.

Kachin: (Mat.) mǝri², (Ben.) mǝriʔ to mark, line.

Lushai: rīn draw a line, scratch, a line, a scratch.

Kiranti: *(b)rek

Comments: Trung bri² to write. Sh. 39; Ben. 103; Mat. 184. ? Cf. Austric: PAN *karis, *-ris 'scratch a line', PAA *ra:jh / *riajh 'scratch, comb', ? Tai *gra:t 'rake'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[iǝ̆]m / *r[iǝ̆]p

Meaning: quick, hurry

Chinese: 急 *k(r)ǝp to hasten, hasty.

Tibetan: grim-pa hasten, hurry.

Kachin: (H) lǝram be quick.

Lepcha: rem strong; quick, swift, to be able; grám to hasten, to speed

Comments: For the Chinese form cf. alternatively Lepcha kăp 'to be hurried, flurried, flustered'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riǝmH

Meaning: fear, threaten

Chinese: 懍 *r_ǝmʔ (~ -imʔ) full of fear, respectful; 禁 *krǝms forbid, prevent, forbidden ground.

Tibetan: khrims right, custom; law, lawsuit.

Burmese: khrimh, krimh threaten, be threatened, terrified.

Kachin: ǝkhrim¹ to threaten, to alarm as with a threat, mǝkrim¹ set the teeth on edge.

Comments: Dimasa migrim fear. Luce 44, Coblin 127-128, Ben. 81. Cf. PAA *bri:m 'afraid' (also other forms, see Peiros 1998, 226).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riǝŋ (s-)

Meaning: sister, sister's descendant

Chinese: 甥 *sreŋ sister's son or daughter; son-in-law.

Tibetan: sriŋ sister (of a male person).

Comments: Kanauri riŋs; Bunan śriŋ; Dhimal ri-ma sister. Sh. 135; Ben. 108; Bod. 71.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ri(ǝ)p

Meaning: pen, enclosure

Chinese: 苙 *r_ǝp, *g_rǝp (~-ip) pen for animals.

Tibetan: rib fence, hedge, enclosure.

Lushai: rip a cage, enclosure in which mad people, etc., are kept.

Lepcha: gríp to confine, to cage (as bird or animal)

Comments: Cf. PAA *ra:p 'shelter'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rij (k-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: dirt

Tibetan: dri filth, dirt, odor.

Burmese: krijh be dirty, filthy.

Kachin: khǝgrui³ dirt.

Lushai: KC *kri.

Lepcha: mă-ri dirt

Comments: Kanauri kri; Bahing ri, ǝri odor, ri-ku filth. Sh. 46, 132; Ben. 115. If OC 霾 *m_rǝ̄ 'dust storm' is related (cf. Lepcha mă-ri), the reconstructed form could be *riǝ̄.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ri(j) (~-e(j))

Meaning: border, boundary

Tibetan: ri mountain, hill.

Kachin: rit², ǯǝrit² a border, a boundary, (H) ǝrit dividing line between two paddy fields, rit to fix, as a border line.

Lushai: ri boundary, frontier.

Comments: BG: Garo a-ri boundary, Dimasa ha-ri id.; Rawang rǝga dǝrit boundary (rǝga country). Ben. 103.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ril (~-ɫ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a k. of creeping plant

Kachin: ri¹ a creeper, rattan, (H) ri, rin.

Lushai: KC *-rīl creeper.

Lepcha: tă-ról rik n. of a creeper, Spatholobus Rozburghii (?)

Comments: BG: Garo re, Dimasa rai rattan, cane; Magari ri cane. Ben. 137. The root should be kept distinct from *rĕ rope (q. v.).

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