Sino-Tibetan etymology : Query result

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jua

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: float, wander about

Chinese: 遊 *lu wander about; 游 *lu float.

Tibetan: g-jo (p.,i. g-jos) to move.

Burmese: jǝw flow, leak; mjawh to float down, drift, hmjawh to set afloat.

Kachin: jo¹, joŋ¹ to float with the stream.

Lushai: zoʔ go along, walk along; follow (as road).

Comments: Tsangla yu; Rawang ǝyü; Trung a³-jǝ² to flow. Ben. 103. Cf. also Karen *ju.1B, Kanauri ya-m-, Tani *yo- 'fly', with a nasal suffix also Naga *yoŋ, Chepang šuŋ id.