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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *nisV
Meaning: 1 linen 2 cloth 3 cobweb 4 loom
Avar: nusí 1,3
Akhvakh: niša 2, niši 3
Chamalal: nis 4
Tindi: nisa / nisi 4
Comments: Av. paradigm B (gen. nusí-dul). In some languages the root is also used within a distorted compound meaning 'spider' (see under *χwarVcV), cf., e.g., God. nusaχar. Cf. also Tind. is:qara-nis 'cobweb'. In the MSU recordings we find Cham. (U-Gakv.) nis 'loom': this is obviously the same word as nis: 'cloth' (recorded by Bokarev with a misspelling - or, perhaps due to contamination with a word reflected in Cham. Gig. as nis:u 'rope' and quite different etymologically: < PA *mirš:ʷi q.v.).
aandet-prnum,aandet-meaning,aandet-ava,aandet-akv,aandet-chm,aandet-tnd,aandet-comment,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *nīmswV ( ~ -ē-,-ɨ̄-,-ǝ̄-)
Meaning: linen, cloth; cobweb
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *nisV Notes: A Nakh-Av.-And. isogloss; correspondences are regular.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-aand,caucet-comment,
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *māša
Meaning: 1 home-spun cloth 2 woolen cloth 3 cobweb
Chechen: māša
Ingush: maša
Batsbi: māšĕ, maš
Comments: 6th class in all languages. Obl. base *māši- (cf. Ing. mäšo).
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-bcb,nakhet-comment,
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *nV́mswV
Meaning: a k. of cloth
sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nǝ̆m
Meaning: weave, cloth
Tibetan: snam woolen cloth.
Comments: Peiros-Starostin 218. Cf. Tani: Shaiyang eki ra-nam 'bark'; Lepcha a-ńóm 'leaf'? Cf. PAN *añam 'plait' (? < ST, see Peiros 1998, 221).
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-comments,
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Chinese characters :
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Character: 紝
Modern (Beijing) reading: rén
Preclassic Old Chinese: n(h)ǝm
Classic Old Chinese: n(h)ǝm
Western Han Chinese: n(h)ǝm
Eastern Han Chinese: ń(h)ǝm
Early Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)im
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)im
Late Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)im
Middle Chinese: ńim
English meaning : to weave
Russian meaning[s]: 1) машинная пряжа; нитки; 2) ткать; узорное тканье
Comments: Also read *n(h)rǝm, MC ṇim id.
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 297
Karlgren code: 0667 l-m
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