Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ĆŏH

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: seize

Chinese: 取 *ćhoʔ to take.

Tibetan: ãʒ́u (p. ãʒ́us) to seize.

Burmese: (?) ćhwajh to grip, catch (a person).

Comments: See Sh. 54.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćŏj (~ ʒ́-,-u-)

Meaning: beak

Chinese: 觜 *ćojʔ beak.

Tibetan: mćhu lip, beak.

Comments: Cf. Kulung chuikaŋ 'front teeth' (?); perhaps also some TB words for 'horn': Sichuan *c̣hV, Naga *cɨ, Manipuri chi. Cf. PAN *qazay 'chin, jaw'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćŏk ( ~ ʒ́-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: enough, sufficient

Chinese: 足 *ćok enough, sufficient.

Tibetan: ćhog be sufficient, sufficiency.

Comments: Simon 9; Coblin 144.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćok / *ćoŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: foot

Chinese: 足 *ćok

Tibetan: ćhag (resp.) shoe.

Comments: Cf. also Naga *ʒVŋ 'foot', Sichuan *c̣hV id.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćon (~-uan)

Meaning: ride, mount

Tibetan: źon to mount.

Kachin: ǯon² to ride.

Comments: Rawang zun; Trung čɔn¹. Ben. 29.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Coŋ ( ~ -ɨ-)

Meaning: building, fortress

Tibetan: rʒoŋ(s) castle, fortress.

Burmese: ćhauŋ classifier for houses, buildings.

Comments: Cf. also Burmese sauŋh stable.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cop ( ~ -ua-)

Meaning: scold

Chinese: 寁 *ʒ_ap to brusque (also read *cǝ̄mʔ id.).

Tibetan: rcub to revile, abuse.

Kachin: (H) ǯop, čop to nag (cf. also ʒep³ be rough, scold, nag, annoy, waʔ²-ʒep³ rough person).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[c]ŏr

Meaning: skin defect

Chinese: 皴 *chur a crack (in skin).

Burmese: ćwan sty (in the eye).

Kachin: čiŋ³-ǯon⁴ small boils or pimples.

Lushai: Haka cuar 'skin'

Lepcha: čor to be wrinkled, to be creased, to be rumpled, as cloth, paper etc.; to be wrinkled as old man; to be shrivelled

Kiranti: *cùr

Comments: Mat. 165.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cŏr / *chŏr

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: chisel, sharp point

Chinese: 鐫 *cor chisel, sharp point.

Tibetan: zor sickle, sor, gsor gimlet; a sort of trephine.

Kachin: (H) son, mǝson a bamboo spike.

Comments: Mikir tśor cut, chop, Bahing tśwar cut by one stroke. Ben. 56.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ćōj ( ~ -ū-)

Meaning: ulcer, abscess

Chinese: 痤 *ʒ́_ōj ulcer.

Burmese: ću to swell.

Comments: ? Cf. Tib. śu an abscess, ulcer.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ĆōjH ( ~ -lH)

Meaning: sit

Chinese: 坐 *ʒ́_ōjʔ sit, seat; kneel.

Burmese: ćwajʔ to sit comfortably.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cōm (~ ʒh-)

Meaning: bundle, sheaf

Chinese: 稯 *cōŋ sheaf, bundle, 總 *cōŋ, *cōŋʔ bundle, to bundle

Tibetan: chom bundle, bunch.

Lepcha: čom 1 to be drawn together, to be compressed, to be crossed one over another, to be crumbled as cloth 2 to be clustered

Comments: Trung dzǝm² to tie.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćōm (~ ʒ́-,-ū-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thicket

Chinese: 叢 *ʒ́ōŋ thicket.

Burmese: ćum pleasant grove, wood, wilderness.

Comments: May be in fact the same root as *ʒ́ōm 'collect' ('grove' = 'collection of trees').

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *cōn (/*cōŋ)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: bore, chisel

Chinese: 鑽 *cōn to bore, perforate, penetrate.

Tibetan: mchon any pointed or cutting instrument.

Burmese: LB *cuŋh chisel.

Lushai: thon to thrust, put endwise anything long into a hole.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ć]ōŋ

Meaning: shrivel, contract

Tibetan: ćhuŋ small

Burmese: LB *CVŋ short

Kachin: (H) čoŋ be puckered or funnel-like.

Lushai: sōŋ (sōn) to shrivel, shrivel up, to contract.

Kiranti: Kaling mɔ-soŋpɛ short

Comments: Cf. also Naga *sVŋ small, Tujia coŋ, Bodo *suʔŋ, Nusu ʒ́oŋ, Sichuan *CVN, Jiarong kǝ-kčǝn short, Aka *saŋ thin.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ć(r)ăŋ

Meaning: form, appearance

Chinese: 狀 *ʒ́_raŋs form, shape, appearance.

Burmese: ćhaŋh features, peculiarities of appearance.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ć(r)aŋ

Meaning: platform, bed

Chinese: 床 *ʒ́_raŋ bed.

Burmese: ćaŋ stand, platform, altar.

Comments: Luce 72. Cf. PAA *(kǝ)cVŋ 'bench, seat, bed'.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[cr]ăŋH (?)

Meaning: faulty, adverse

Chinese: 爽 *sraŋʔ different; deviate, aberr; go astray; defective, faulty.

Kachin: (H) ǯaŋ be adverse, disagreeing.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ć(r)enH (~ -ia-, -ɫH)

Meaning: a k. of liquor

Chinese: 醆 *ćrē̆nʔ half-clarified spirits.

Kachin: mǝčan¹ the first and best brew, as of beer or liquor.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ć(r)ēk

Meaning: debt

Chinese: 責 *ćrēks debt, *ćrēk to demand payment.

Kachin: (H) ǯik to buy or sell on credit.