Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[ă]ŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: provisions

Chinese: 糧 *raŋ grain, provisions.

Tibetan: ãgraŋ-ba to satisfy with food.

Kachin: lǝreŋ⁴ the vitals.

Lepcha: kă-ruŋ meat or drink prepared for special occasions; ambrosia, nectar

Comments: Cf. also Idu *b-reŋ, Daofu bjoŋ (noŋ) 'meat'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rāj (p-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: wide

Burmese: prah be flat, level, not spherical.

Kachin: pye¹ be flat, level.

Lushai: rai flat and wide.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ral

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thin, watery

Chinese: 醨 *r_aj thin wine.

Burmese: krajh thin, not thick (of fluid).

Lushai: rīl watery, thin.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[ă]p

Meaning: tread, trample

Chinese: 躐 *r_ap tread, trample.

Tibetan: skrab-pa to stamp, thread.

Kachin: lǝkhrip² to keep, as step.

Lushai: rap (raʔ) to tread upon, trample upon.

Kiranti: *ŕVp

Comments: Cf. also OCh. 押 *ʔrāp seal, stamp. ? Cf. PAA *ra:p 'flat, flatten', Thai ra:p, riap flat, smooth; to put on one surface.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *r[ā]kʷ

Meaning: noise, roar

Chinese: 樂 *ŋrākʷ music (?)

Tibetan: ãkhrog-pa to roar, rush, buzz; grag-pa noise, rumour; ãgrag(s)-pa to cry, sound, resound; sgrog-pa to call, call out.

Burmese: rǝuk to sound, buzz.

Kachin: (H) gǝro to din, clamour.

Lushai: rāk to make a noise.

Lepcha: grik noise, sound of anything

Kiranti: *krùk

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

Meaning: heal, be cured

Chinese: 療 *raw(s) to cure.

Tibetan: (П) drag to recover, be cured.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *răw

Meaning: clear

Kachin: gru² to cut and clear.

Lushai: hrô to clear (cf. also rauʔ to strip, to clear).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rākʷ (k-)

Meaning: solid, hard

Chinese: 確 *khrākʷ solid, firm.

Tibetan: mkhregs-pa hard, firm; drag, hrag 'hard'

Lushai: ruʔ firm, hard.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jă (/ *ră ?) (k-)

Meaning: right

Tibetan: g-jas right.

Burmese: lak-ja right, as opposit to left, ńa id.

Kachin: khra³ right (side).

Lepcha: gjo-m

Comments: BG: Garo dźak-ra, Dimasa yau-gada; Kham yai-pā. Sh. 42; Ben. 34; Luce 6; Mat. 190. Here also probably some TB words for 'good': Lepcha rju, Tib. ja-g, Pumi *je, *r-je.