Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krā (~g-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a k. of grain

Chinese: 稼 *krās grain.

Tibetan: khra a sp. of grain (cf. also gro wheat).

Lepcha: ko-gró (-zo) a spec. of grain

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 218.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Krā(H)

Meaning: variegated

Chinese: 夏 *g_rāʔ variegated, 騢 *g_rā horse with mixed red and white colour.

Tibetan: bkra, khra variegated, khra piebald, two-coloured.

Burmese: kjah be variegated, be marked with different colours.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ā̆w

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: high, elevate

Chinese: 喬 *g(r)aw high, rising aloft, 高 *kāw high.

Burmese: khauh to exalt, protrude, LB *s-ko big

Kachin: (H) grau to exalt, promote, elevate.

Comments: Cf. also Sichuan *kV 'big'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krēH (~g-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: divide

Chinese: 解 *krēʔ divide; cut up (e. g. an ox).

Burmese: krah to have a space between, be apart, khrah be between, divide, make separate, distinct.

Comments: Here perhaps Angami Naga *khri 'kill' (?)

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krēn

Meaning: naked, bare

Tibetan: sgren-mo naked.

Kachin: krin¹ be bare, naked, nude.

Lushai: ṭēn be precipitous and bare, be bare.

Lepcha: krán almost bare (tree), scanty, said of head with little hair or tree with leaves and not bearing much fruits

Comments: Cf. also Och. 裸 *rōjʔ naked, Tib. sgre-ba naked: the similarity of sgre and sgren in Tib. may be due to chance, or else PST *krēn may be a result of affixation (*k-rōj-n > *krēn?).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ēŋ (~g-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: vein, thread

Chinese: 經 *kēŋ warp, 巠 *kēŋ vein of water (Shuowen).

Tibetan: rkjaŋ name of a vein.

Burmese: khjañ, khrañ thread, LB *khriŋ.

Comments: Cf. the words for 'root' in some TB languages: Bugun ereŋ, Jirel cab-reŋ, Aka *khrin, Nocte ariŋ, Nung *grVN (although they may reflect some other roots as well).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ēp

Meaning: pinch

Chinese: 夾 *krēp tweezers, 梜 *kēp, *krēp chop-sticks.

Kachin: lǝkap³ pinchers, sniffers, tongs.

Kiranti: Limbu kɛ:pmaʔ 'pinch'.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAN *-kep 'seize, grasp', *cekep; *kapkap 'feel, grope'; PAA *kap / *ke:p 'pinch'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ǝ̆H (~ q-)

Meaning: lead a thread, draw a line

Chinese: 紀 *k(r)ǝʔ leading thread; record, to record.

Tibetan: khra-ma register, index.

Kachin: ka¹ to write; mǝka¹ embroidery, carving.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 217.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krǝ̆j

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: hunger, thirst

Chinese: 飢 *krǝj famine, be hungry, 饉 *grǝn to die of starvation.

Tibetan: bkres to be hungry, hunger, bkren poor, hungry.

Kachin: (H) kǝra be thirsty.

Lepcha: krít hunger

Comments: Gurung -kre; Trung pǝ³-rai¹-či². Sh. 124; Bod. 166; Gong 71. Perhaps the same root as *rǝ̆j 'wish, long' q. v.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ǝ̆j ( ~ g-, q-, G-; -s)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: near, close

Chinese: 幾 *kǝj be near, close, imminent.

Tibetan: ãkhris near, close.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 216. Cf. also OCh. 近 *g_ǝrʔ be near, *g_ǝrʔ-s come near to, keep close to. Cf. rather scattered Austric forms: Thai kǝ:j 'to overlap', Khmer pǝŋkaǝj 'very near, close', Viet. kề 'near, approach' - probably all of Chinese origin.

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