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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tajH
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: big, much
Chinese: *tāj much, many, 哆 *thajʔ, *thiajʔ, *trājʔ, *thrājʔ be great.
Tibetan: mthe-bo thumb (?)
Burmese: taj very; tǝiʔ sign of the plural.
Kachin: theʔ2 and.
Lushai: teʔ ( < *teiʔ ?) much, very much; -te suffix denoting plurality.
Lepcha: tí, tɨ́-m 1 to be great,to be large, to be big 2 to be grand, to be noble 3 express comparative and superlative degree "better, greater, higher, much, very"; the great, the high, the upper etc.
Kiranti: *dV
Comments: Mikir the big; Rawang thɛ; Gurung tha' great. Ben. 66. Cf. Miju-Geman kɨ-tai, Naga *kǝd(a)i, Trung *thVi, Jiarong (kǝ)kte 'big'. Cf. also *tă 'all', *[d]ā 'thick' (with some confusion).
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