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Modern (Beijing) reading: lǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhāʔ
Classic Old Chinese: rhā́
Western Han Chinese: rhā́
Eastern Han Chinese: rhā́
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhṓ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhṓ
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhṓ
Middle Chinese: ló
English meaning : salt; salty (e. g. land) [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) солончаки; соленые колодцы (водоемы); 2) рассол; 3) грубый, неотесанный; небрежный; 4) негодный; 5) тупой, глупый, вм. 魯; 6) захватывать (уводить) в плен, см.
Comments: For *rh- cf. Xiamen lɔ6, Fuzhou lo6.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 197
Four-angle index: 1918
Karlgren code: 0071 a-b
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rāH (/ *rāk, *rāŋ)
Meaning: rough, coarse
Chinese: *rhāʔ rustic, coarse; salty (e.g. land).
Tibetan: rags coarse, thick, gross, raŋs rough, rude, unpolished.
Burmese: hraʔ feel the harshness of surface, feel an unpleasant taste.
Kachin: gra2, mǝgra2 be sharp to the touch.
Comments: Coblin 55-56. In Burm. the root has coincided with hraʔ 'to wound by a slight cut, accidentally', see *[ʔʷ]răH. Sag. 10 compares Chin. with PAN *qasiRa 'salt' (?).
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