Sinitic and Romance shared etymologies of Spanish words can, pan, caño, manar, mano and sano

Abstract

Using etymological methods, this study has identified six Sinitic and Romance shared (~ Sino- Germanic) etymologies (etyma): 【 犬 , 飯 , 管 , 滿 , 挽 , 全 】 . These six etyma form a rhyme correspondence. This regular sound change validates the etymological connection in question. The etymon 【 犬 】 for ‘dog’ has been identified in Sinitic, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Celtic, Hellenic, Armenian, Indo-Iranian, Tocharian, Tibeto-Burman and Finnic. The etymon 【 飯 】 for ‘food’ has been identified in Sinitic, Romance, Ancient Greek and Armenian. The etymon 【 管 】 for ‘cane’ has been identified in Sinitic, Romance, Ancient Greek, Albanian, Akkadian and other Semito-Hamitic languages. The etymon 【 滿 】 for ‘overflow’ has been identified in Sinitic and Romance. The etymon 【 挽 】 for ‘arm’ has been identified in Sinitic, Romance, Germanic, Old Irish and Hittite. The etymon 【 全 】 for ‘sane’ has been identified in Sinitic, Romance, Germanic, and Albanian. In words of Western linguistics, the Proto-Indo-European root ḱuōn ‘dog’ and the etymologies of Latin words panis ‘pan’, canna ‘caña’, mānāre ‘manar’, manus ‘mano’, sanus ‘sano’ are newly identified in Sinitic.