Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chīŋ

Meaning: a big number; flourishing, luxuriant

Chinese: 千 *chīn 1000; 芊 *chīn flourishing, rich (e. g. country).

Kachin: nsiŋ⁴ new growth, as of jungle.

Lushai: siŋ 10000.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨaj (~-ua-)

Meaning: watch, gaze

Tibetan: bca (resp.) to watch, spy.

Kachin: (H) soi, ǝsoi to gaze at.

Comments: Cf. also Naga *cɨ, Chepang ćǝwʔ- 'see'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨāj

Meaning: touch, graze

Chinese: 差 *chāj to rub, 磋 *chāj to file, polish.

Tibetan: rce to touch.

Burmese: swajh to whet, rub one substance on another in order to sharpen, polish.

Kachin: (H) soi, gǝsoi to graze, almost hit.

Lushai: thoi slightly graze, go or pass close to (cf. also sui (suiʔ) to scrape or trim (with a blade); čhai to caress or fondle).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćhɨāmH

Meaning: gruel, soup

Chinese: 糝 *s_ǝ̄mʔ rice gruel with meat.

Tibetan: ãʒ́am (resp.) soup.

Lushai: čom mix (any liquid food) with cooked rice.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨ̆ɫ

Meaning: kin, relative

Chinese: 親 *chǝn a close person, parent; personal.

Burmese: ǝćhwij kin, relative.

Kiranti: *ʔcel 'parental home'

Comments: See Luce 17 (compares also Tib. chul method, way; species, kind).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨ̄aŋ

Meaning: ware, store

Chinese: 倉 *chāŋ store; granary.

Tibetan: zoŋ ware, goods, choŋ trade, commerce, ãchong (p. bcoŋs, f. bcoŋ) to sell.

Burmese: ćhǝuŋ a shop, stall.

Kachin: seŋ¹ a shop, a stall; (H) saŋ a bin, as for paddy

Comments: PG *cùŋ sell; Moshang śoŋ, Namsangia saŋ. Sh. 431.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨ̄m (~ -ua-)

Meaning: meet

Chinese: 參 *chǝ̄m to accumulate.

Tibetan: ãʒom(s) come together, to meet.

Burmese: ćhum to meet.

Comments: Trung sǝm¹. Simon 23; Luce 45.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨ̄t

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: steal

Chinese: 竊 *chǝ̄t (~ -ēt) steal.

Burmese: sut steal.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ch]ɨ̄w(H)

Meaning: sacrifice

Chinese: 造 *chū(ʔ)s go and offer a sacrifice.

Kachin: (H) ǯau, phǝǯau to sacrifice.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cho ( ~ -aw, -ew, -ɨ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: speak, word

Burmese: ćhǝw to say, speak, tell.

Kachin: (Mat.) su¹ to speak, convey news of a tragedy (possibly from Burm.).

Lushai: thu word, saying, news, order.

Comments: There appears to have existed another root *śoj 'say, speak', reflected in Lush. soi, Tib. (dial.) si, Konyak še, Naga *sa, Naxi sǝ, Sichuan *šV - but at least some of these forms can also go back to *cho.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chok (~-u-)

Meaning: deceive, lie

Tibetan: zog deceit, fraud, falsehood.

Kachin: mǝsuʔ² to lie, pretend, feign.

Comments: Trung gu¹-jŏʔ¹ to lie.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chŏm

Meaning: a k. of tree (fir-tree)

Chinese: 樅 *choŋ a tree kindred to fir and cypress.

Tibetan: som fir-tree, pine-tree.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chŏŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: follow, accompany

Chinese: 從 *ʒhoŋ follow, pursue.

Tibetan: rʒoŋ(s) the act of accompanying, escorting, rʒoŋ (p. (b)rʒaŋ(s), f. (b)rʒaŋ) to send, to dispatch.

Comments: Cf. also OCh. 送 *sōŋs to escort, follow after, send. Here perhaps Naga *cVŋ 'road' ( < 'trace'?).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chŏt

Meaning: jump

Burmese: sut jump, as a fish.

Kachin: (H) kǝcot to jump, as a fish on the surface of the water (cf. also gumǯot to jump upward).

Lushai: sot (soʔ) to go by bounds (as mouse), to bound, leap, spring.

Comments: Here perhaps Manipuri chat, Tangkul zat 'walk, go'. Cf. Austric: PAA *cVt 'jump', PAN *iŋsiD, *isud 'move, budge'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chot ( ~ ʒ́-)

Meaning: drag

Burmese: ćwat to drag.

Kachin: gǝsot² to drag, as the feet, (H) sot id.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chōjH

Meaning: deep

Chinese: 漼 *chōjʔ deep.

Lushai: thoiʔ deep, deeply.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chōk

Meaning: crowd, group, clan

Chinese: 族 *ʒ_ōk clan, kin; group of families.

Tibetan: chogs an assemblage of men, ãchogs (p., i. chogs) to assemble, gather, meet.

Kachin: (?) sak² to crowd; to fill by urging or pressing.

Comments: Cf. Naga Ao-Chungli a-ʒak 'all'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ch]ōk

Meaning: pinch

Kachin: lǝčok² a pinch.

Lushai: sōk (soʔ) to take a pinch.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chōk (~-ū-)

Meaning: nest

Chinese: 蔟 *chōk bird's nest.

Burmese: ǝsǝuk nest.

Comments: Cf. Bahing dzok- 'nest' (STEDT 303 *to[k/ŋ] ~ *d(z)o[k/ŋ], listing also some not very convincing material with *t-; note that Burm. ǝsǝuk is for some reason treated as a reflex of *chĭp, see STEDT 300).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chōŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: onion

Chinese: 蔥 *chōŋ onion.

Tibetan: bcoŋ onion.

Comments: Simon 16; Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 114.