Etymologies

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;

 

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