This page gives links to etymological discussions in this blog, classified by language
Chinese
喬 | gjew < *[N-k](r)aw | ‘elevated’ | here |
羽 | hjuX < *[ɢ]ʷ(r)aʔ | ‘feather, wing’ | here |
犬 | khwenX < *[k]ʷʰˤ[e][n]ʔ | ‘dog’ | here |
鷮 | kjew < *[k](r)aw | ‘kind of pheasant’ | here |
水 | sywijX < *s.turʔ | ‘water, river’ | here |
脣 | zywin < *sə.dur | ‘lip’ | here |
*thu[n] | ‘egg’ | here | |
草 | *[tsʰ]ˤuʔ | ‘grass’ | here |
損 | *[s-q]ʷˤə[n]ʔ | ‘diminish’ | here |
羨 | *[ɢ]a[n] | ‘pass, go beyond’ | here |
夤 | *[ɢ](r)ə[r] | ‘small of the back‘ | here |
與 | *m-q(r)aʔ (faulty reconstruction) |
‘give; for; and’ | here |
稻 | *[l]ˤuʔ > dawX > dào |
‘rice plant’ | here |
袁 | *[ɢ]ʷa[n] > hjwon > yuán |
‘long robe’ | here |
尸 | *l̥əj > syij > shī | ‘corpse’ | here |
屎 | *[qʰ]ijʔ > syijX > shǐ | ‘excrement’ | here |
手 | *n̥uʔ |
‘hand’ | here |
杻 | *n̥<r>uʔ | ‘shackles, handcuffs’ |
here |
狃 | *Cə.n<r>uʔ |
‘claws’ | here |
翼 |
(proposed) *m-rəp |
‘wing’ | here |
翌 翊 | (proposed) *m-rəp | ‘next day’ |
here |
風 | *prəm | ‘wind (n.)’ | here |
Tibetan
ཆུ | chu | ‘water’ | here |
ཁྱི | khyi | ‘dog’ | here |
མཆུ | mchu | ‘lip’ | here |
སྒྲོ | sgro | ‘large feather’ | here |
སྐུར | skur | ‘abuse’ | here |
རྩྭ | rtswa | ‘grass’ | here |
སྒལ་པ | sgal-pa | ‘back of man, back of beast of burden, small of the back’ | here |
རྒལ་པ | rgal-pa | to step, pass or climb over; to ford | here |
གོན་ | gon |
‘clothing’ | here |
Jingpo
shagrau | ‘to praise, extol’ | here |
shagrau | ‘the interior layer under the skin of fruits like the pomelo’ | here |
Bodo
dəy | ‘water’ | here |
(gusu)təy | ‘lip’ | here |
səy(má) | ‘dog’ | here |
dəy | ‘egg’ | here |
Lushai
ui | ‘dog’ | here |
tui | ‘water’ | here |
tui | ‘egg’ | here |
Proto-Karen (LuangThongkum)
thej A | ‘water’ | here |
thwi B | ‘dog’ | here |
Ɂdej B | ‘egg’ | here |
Austronesian
baqbaq ‘mouth’ here; biRáq ‘kind of taro’ here; *buŋáH1 and *bujak ‘flower’ here; cáni ‘one’ here; Caqi ‘excrement’ here ; inum ‘to drink’ here; nanum ‘water’ here; -ŋel ‘deaf’ here; *píntu ‘door’ here; puluq ‘ten’ here; qa-sáuŋ ‘canine tooth’ here; sapeléd, ma-sapeléd ‘astringent’ here; *sedút ‘to suck’ here; siwa, Siwa ‘nine’ here; tanu ‘only; one’ here; u common noun marker here; waNiS ‘tusk; boar’ here; waNu ‘honeybee’ here;