Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jāt

Meaning: increase, much

Kachin: mǝjat² to increase, multiply.

Lushai: zāt much, many.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jĕ(k)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: shaggy

Tibetan: jegs rough, shaggy, hairy.

Kachin: je² be shaggy.

Kiranti: Limbu i, mur-ik 'hair'

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jel / *jol (~-ɫ)

Meaning: roll, roll up

Kachin: gum-jon² to roll into rolls.

Lushai: zial to roll up (as a rug).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jĕl (~-ɫ)

Meaning: lazy, idle

Tibetan: g-jel be idle, lazy; to forget

Lushai: zel to idle about, speed one's time idly.

Comments: ? Cf. OC 諼 *s-wan 'forget'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jēm

Meaning: a k. of vessel

Kachin: jam² a jar.

Lushai: zēm a large circular bamboo receptacle for storing paddy; rice bin.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jēŋ

Meaning: move, shift

Tibetan: g-jeŋ (p. (g)jeŋs) to move a thing softly to and fro.

Kachin: (H) jeŋ to swing, totter, tremble; to move, shift to one side.

Kiranti: *jàŋ

Comments: Cf. PAN *ayuŋ, *hayun 'swing, sway, rock' (?)

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *j[ē]p

Meaning: hide, conceal

Tibetan: jib-pa hide one's self.

Kachin: ip³, (H) jip cover, conceal (information).

Lushai: zēp to hide, conceal.

Comments: Ben. 36-37.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆H

Meaning: wife, brother's wife

Chinese: 姒 *lhǝʔ wife of elder brother.

Burmese: mǝjah wife.

Lepcha: jŭ woman

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆H

Meaning: resemble, fit

Chinese: 似 *lhǝʔ resemble.

Kachin: (H) khja be as two of a kind.

Lushai: zia be congruous; to fit (to or for), suitable.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆j

Meaning: cut

Chinese: 痍 *lǝj injure, to wound, 荑 *lǝj to mow.

Lushai: zai to cut (as with dao).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆l

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: straight, level, even

Chinese: 夷 *lǝj level, even; equal.

Kachin: gǝjan¹ straight, not bent or crooked.

Lushai: zal be level, even or smooth (as road) (cf. also zāl be of a gentle easy gradient (as road), zōl be level).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝm

Meaning: swing

Tibetan: jom to swing, totter, tremble.

Burmese: jamh to strike right and left, or make any rapid motion from side to side.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆ŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: fly, bee

Chinese: 蠅 *lǝŋ a fly.

Tibetan: (W) bu-jaŋ bumble-bee.

Burmese: jaŋ common house fly.

Kiranti: *jaŋ

Comments: BG: Garo dźaŋ; Kanauri yāŋ fly, bee. Sh. 42; Ben. 1667. Cf. PAN *buyuŋ 'bumblebee'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆w

Meaning: understand, consider

Kachin: ju¹ to see, observe, behold, (H) gum-ju to consider.

Lushai: KC *yo look, see (also Tid. zā 'hear'?)

Lepcha: jă know

Comments: Sh. 42. For a possible Chinese reflex see under *lǝ̆w.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆w

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: all, everything

Tibetan: jo-ba everything, altogether.

Kachin: (Sh.) ju all.

Lushai: KC *yo.

Kiranti: *jV-n

Comments: Sh 408. Cf. also: Kham g-yōh, Tani *ka-yi, Naga *kǝ-zV, Kaike ki- 'big'; with nasal suffixation Limbu yǝn-, Konyak *yoŋ id.; Miju juŋ, Mikir o, oŋ 'many'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆w

Meaning: finish

Kachin: ju² finish, retire.

Lushai: zô (zoʔ) to finish, to complete, KC *yo.

Comments: Sh. 42.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̄l (/-r)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sprout, branch

Chinese: 荑 *lhǝ̄j sprout, shoot.

Tibetan: jal-ga branch, bough.

Lushai: zār a bough, a branch.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̄m

Meaning: spread

Chinese: 覃 *lhǝ̄m extend, spread

Lushai: zām creep, spread.

Comments: In OCh. cf. also 潭 *lhǝ̄m deep (a later specialization of the meaning, "extended into depth", possibly under the influence of 深 *ƛhǝm deep, see *ƛŭm): despite Sagart 1995, 204, the word has nothing to do with Tibeto-Burman forms meaning 'pond, pool', see under *dh(r)ǝm 'deep'. [For Chin. cf. alternatively: Burm. hlwamʔ 'to spread', hlwamh 'to cover'.]

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̄r

Meaning: spread, extend

Tibetan: g-jor sail, jar to disperse, ramble, stray.

Kachin: jan² to be unrolled and spread out, as a bundle, be extended, drawn out in a line, (H) ǝjan extended, continuous, niŋjan long (cf. also jai, ǝjai to scatter, throw about).

Lushai: zār to spread or spread out (as wings), to hang up (as cloth).

Comments: Tiddim zāk spread a blanket; Karen ya sail. Ben. 138.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jiŋ (~-eŋ,-iǝŋ)

Meaning: near, close

Burmese: hjań be close, side by side.

Lushai: ziŋ (zin) be close together.