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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (bhe³ "side"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Could this be related to Old Chinese比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ, “to compare”)?”
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ə-bhê "great-grandfather"). Luce gives Old Chinese妣 (OC *piʔ, *pis, “honorific term for deceased mother”) as a cognate.[1]”
^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (68. Grandmother; Ancestor)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 13