Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*caŋ]

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: black, dark

Kachin: čaŋ¹ black, (H) mǝčaŋ id.

Comments: Tsangla tsaŋ. Ben. 52. Cf. also Serdukpen achõ, Motuo tćhaŋ lu 'black', Naga *zVŋ 'night'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćăŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bring, arrange

Chinese: 將 *ćaŋ bring, offer; take; arrange.

Tibetan: ãćhaŋ (p. bćaŋs, f. bćaŋ, i. ćhoŋ(s)) to hold, to keep; to carry; to wear.

Burmese: ćhaŋ to make, construct, arrange.

Kachin: (H) kǝǯaŋ, lǝǯaŋ to arrange.

Lushai: čaŋ (čan) receive or get.

Comments: Coblin 94. Cf. Yamphu caŋma 'to bring or take smth. out'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*Caŋ]

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: person

Burmese: LB *chaŋ person.

Comments: Cf. also Midzhu tsoŋ, Naga *ca[ŋ], Trung *chaŋ, Sichuan *chV, Jiarong tǝ-tsɔ. Sh. 185.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćăŋ (~ ʒ́-)

Meaning: a k. of drink

Chinese: 漿 *ćaŋ rice-water, drink.

Tibetan: ćhaŋ beer, wine.

Comments: Gong 75.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *căp

Meaning: cut, trim

Tibetan: gcab to cut small, to chop.

Lushai: čap to trim or adze into a plank.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćăp

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: join, connect

Chinese: 接 *cap (?*ć-) connect, come in contact.

Tibetan: ćhabs together.

Burmese: ćap to join, unite, connect.

Kachin: čap³ to be on friendly terms; to adhere, as soot to a roof.

Lepcha: ǯŭp to be close together, to be near together

Comments: Garo tśap-tśap adjacent. Ben. 47. Coblin 57 compares also OCh. 際 *ćats juncture, connection < *ćaps, which is probably derived from 接 *ćap and makes probable the reconstruction of *ć- in OCh. (despite Starostin 1989, 238).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Căp

Meaning: quick, hurry

Chinese: 捷 *ʒ_ap quick, mobile, nimble.

Tibetan: cab-cub, cab-cob, rcab-rcob hurry, haste.

Lepcha: ǯap-pă ǯap-pă quick with fingers, dexterous

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćăp ( ~ ʒ́-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: peg, wedge

Chinese: 椄 *ćap peg, tenon.

Burmese: sap wedge.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćat

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: womb, placenta

Kachin: pu-ǯat 'womb'

Lepcha: a-jeŋ-čot 'placenta'

Comments: STEDT 290-291 *tsat, comparing also Thaoa (Chin) tat 'womb', Hayu tsat-nomri 'placenta' as well as some LB and Karen forms.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *caw ( ~ ć-, -e-)

Meaning: wish, like

Burmese: ćauh to think about, want, wish.

Kachin: če³-ǯu³ strong affection, (H) ǯu to like.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cāj ( ~ ʒh-, -l)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: help, assist

Chinese: 佐 *cājʔs to aid, assist; 左 *cājʔ left ( < *assisting).

Burmese: ćhai to save.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *ʒuaj 'help', Tai ʒuaj.B id.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćāk

Meaning: love, desire

Tibetan: ćhags to love.

Kachin: n-ǯaʔ² to show love.

Lushai: čāk want, desire.

Comments: Cf. also Jnp. coʔ³ to love, to want, to require.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ćāk

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: rope

Chinese: 筰 *ʒ́_āk bamboo rope.

Tibetan: źags leash, rope with a noose.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[C]ām

Meaning: ashamed

Chinese: 慚 *ʒ́hām ashamed.

Tibetan: ãʒem to feel ashamed.

Comments: Simon 23; Gong 85.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[c]āŋ

Meaning: good

Chinese: 臧 *ćāŋ good.

Tibetan: bzaŋ good, fair, beautiful.

Lepcha: čóŋ to be handsome; to be pretty; to be beautiful

Kiranti: *caŋ (/ʔc-) 'new'

Comments: Cf. also Burm. saŋ be useful. Coblin 87; Gong 73. Cf. also: Yintale (Karen) ǯɨ.55, Ao Naga taʒuŋ, Gurung *čhaN, Nocte asan, Naxi ʒ́ǝ.31 'good'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ć]āŋ

Meaning: store, hoard

Chinese: 藏 *ʒ́āŋ to store, 贓 *ćāŋ stolen goods.

Tibetan: ãʒaŋs-pa to hoard wealth.

Comments: Coblin 57. Cf. *chɨ̄aŋ - the sibilant in Tib. is probably due to the influence of that root.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cāŋ ( ~ ć-)

Meaning: bury, prepare for burial

Chinese: 葬 *cāŋs (~ć-) to bury, inter.

Kachin: ǯaŋ² to prepare as a corpse for burial.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ce

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: threaten, scold

Tibetan: rʒe to threaten.

Kachin: (H) ǯe to cause, as a quarrel, kǝče to scold (cf. also mǝca¹ to swear, to curse).

Comments: Cf. *ćĕlH.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *će(j)

Meaning: like, love

Tibetan: gćes dear, beloved.

Kachin: (H) ǯi, nǯi to like, favour.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cĕk

Meaning: dot, spot

Tibetan: cheg point, dot.

Lushai: čik spotted.