Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ruak

Meaning: ant

Tibetan: grog ant, emmet.

Burmese: pŭ-rwak ant, LB *ruak.

Kachin: ? čǝkhrau⁴ red ants.

Kiranti: *gràk-mǝ

Comments: Rgyarung kŏrŏk; Rawang sǝrɔ; Miri tǝruk. Ben. 47.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ruak

Meaning: leaf

Chinese: 綠 *rok green

Tibetan: khrog-po botanical term, used of leaves standing around the stem.

Burmese: ǝrwak leaf.

Comments: Luce 69. Cf. also Kanauri rāg 'green'. [Cf. also plant names: OC 菉 rok 'name of a plant of uncertain species' (C.: nom d'une plante à feuille de bambou'); Burm. hrauk 'shaddock', Tib. rug 'a potato-like knotty root'.]

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

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: cavity

Chinese: 窖 *krūks cave, cellar.

Tibetan: grog a deep dell, ravine, lateral valley.

Burmese: khrǝuk be concave.

Kachin: khǝroʔ³ ravine.

Lushai: ruak (ruaʔ) be empty, vacant.

Comments: Rawang khǝro. Ben. 39.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[ua]ɫ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: round, roll, wheel

Chinese: 輪 *run wheel.

Tibetan: ril, hril, rel round, globular, ãdril (p. dril) be turned, rolled round.

Lushai: hrual roll up in the hand, twist.

Lepcha: ról to roll round

Kiranti: *rìl

Comments: PG *rVl round; Kham khwàril.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r(u)am

Meaning: hate, dislike

Burmese: rwam detest, disgust, squeamish; rwamʔ be scared of.

Lushai: ṭham to make one feel uneasy (as food, which does not agree with one).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[u]am

Meaning: ripe, full-grown

Burmese: rwamh be nearly ripe.

Kachin: ram³ the age of puberty, (H) ǝram a person having reached the age of puberty.

Lushai: hram be high, tall, rank (as weeds), hrām large, tall (of things which grow).

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *dʔu:m (?), Munda ʒarum, PAN *lum 'ripe'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ruaŋ

Meaning: back

Kachin: mǝruŋ¹ the spine, the spinal column, the back-bone.

Lushai: KC *ruaŋ.

Comments: Sh. 410. Cf. PAA *rɔŋ / *rɔ:ŋ, SM *-dɔŋ 'back'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭj

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: rope

Chinese: 縲 *ruj rope, bonds, 纍 *ruj to wind around; string.

Tibetan: dru-bu, gru-bu 'clew of threads, yarn'

Lushai: hrui bow-string, KC *k?-hr²ui\..

Comments: Sh. 121, 195, 407. STEDT 183ff *s-hrwǝy 'cord, string, cane, rattan' (a confusion with *rĕ 'rope' and *ril 'creeping plant' q.v.).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ruj (~-o-)

Meaning: slant, oblique

Burmese: hrwij slant, be obligue.

Kachin: rui² gently sloping; slanting, (H) rǝwi id.

Comments: Ben. 47.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭjH

Meaning: a k. of creeping plant

Chinese: 櫐 *r_ujʔ creepers, lianes.

Burmese: rwijh 'Abrus precatorius, a leguminous plant'

Kachin: (H) uroi a full-grown bamboo.

Lushai: hrui a creeper, KC *t?-hr²ui.

Comments: Digaro ta-ruí ~ tǝ-roi; Abor tǝrü. Sh. 409, 438; Ben. 47. Cf. Austric: PAA *riɛjh 'root', PAN *waRej 'creeper, root'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭk

Meaning: bamboo

Chinese: 竹 *truk bamboo.

Kachin: mǝkruʔ³ bamboo sprouts or shoots.

Comments: Cf. PAN *taluk, *taruk 'young plant shoot', TP *P-ntrUk 'bamboo strips' - possibly the source of ST forms.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭk

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: six

Chinese: 六 *rhuk six.

Tibetan: drug six.

Burmese: khrauk six, LB *khrukx.

Kachin: kruʔ³ six.

Lushai: pa-ruk, ruʔ six KC *t-r¹uk.

Lepcha: tă-răk six

Kiranti: *rúk ( / *T-r-)

Comments: PG *ṭu/ùC^L; Mikir thǝrok; BG: Garo dok, Dimasa do; Moshang tă-rok; Namsangia i-rok; Kanauri ṭugʔ; Rawang tǝru, Trung krŭʔ¹; Magari kruk; Digaro thǝrɔ. Simon 9; Sh. 22, 124, 135, 433; Ben 94, 95; Mat. 201; Peiros-Starostin 216.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭɫ

Meaning: turn, move

Chinese: 轉 *tronʔ turn round; transfer, remove; 傳 *dronʔ transmit, remove.

Tibetan: srul-ba to stir, move.

Burmese: hrwijʔ to move, turn up.

Comments: Luce 18.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rul ( ~ -o-,-ɫ)

Meaning: inhale, sip

Burmese: hru to inhale.

Kachin: mǝrun² to sip, to suck.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rūlH (~-ɫH)

Meaning: walk, go along

Tibetan: ãgrul-ba to walk, pass, travel.

Burmese: rwijʔ to move from one's place, hrwijʔ to move a thing out of its place.

Kachin: (H) gumren to move, as along a fence or wall.

Lushai: hrūl go along close by.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭŋ / *rŭk (~-ŏ-)

Meaning: thunder

Chinese: 隆 *ruŋ thunder, sound of thunder.

Tibetan: ãbrug thunder.

Comments: Trung dǝ³-rǝ̆ŋ² thunder.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rup

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: sew

Tibetan: ãdrub (p.,i. drub(s)) to sew, to embroider.

Burmese: khjup to sew, LB *k(h)lupx.

Lepcha: hrap

Comments: PG *ṭùp^L; Trung krǝp¹; Magari rup; Rgyarung tup. Ben. 114.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rū

Meaning: a k. of fermented drink

Chinese: 醪 *r_ū spirits with sediment.

Tibetan: ru-ma curdled milk used as a ferment.

Kachin: čǝru⁴ native beer or whisky, (H) ru id.

Lushai: ru strong, fierce (as alcoholic spirits).

Comments: Bod. 93.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rūH (s-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: nit, egg

Chinese: 卵 rhō-nʔ egg

Tibetan: sro-ma egg of a louse, a nit.

Kachin: ciʔ³-ru² nit.

Lushai: hru a nit, louse, egg.

Kiranti: *r[i] 'seed' (?)

Comments: Rgyarung dẓǝru louse egg. Ben. 64. STEDT 121 *s-row (adding the Chinese form - which is possible supposing *-n is a collective suffix here - but omitting the Lushei form). Cf. also: Miji rinh 'egg', Tangkul harra id.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rū̆jH ( ~ -o-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: part of a plough

Chinese: 耒 *r_ujʔ, *r_ūjs plough stem, a plough.

Kachin: (H) sumro the socket of a ploughshare.