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Character: 隕
Modern (Beijing) reading: yǔn
Preclassic Old Chinese: w(h)rǝnʔ
Classic Old Chinese: w(h)rǝ́n
Western Han Chinese: w(h)rǝ́n
Eastern Han Chinese: w(h)rǝ́n
Early Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ín
Middle Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ín
Late Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ín
Middle Chinese: wín
English meaning : to drop, fall
Russian meaning[s]: 1) упасть с высоты; низвергнуться; 2) погубить; погибнуть, вм. 殞
Radical: 170
Four-angle index: 7960
Karlgren code: 0227 g-h
Shijing occurrences: 58.4_
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,bigchina-karlgren,bigchina-shijing,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Gʷ(r)ɨ̆ɫH (~-iǝ̆-)
Meaning: fall
Tibetan: ãgjel-ba (p., i. gjel) to fall, tumble, sgjel (p., f. bsgjel) to throw down.
Kachin: khon2 to fall down from an elevation.
Comments: Here perhaps some TB forms meaning 'to lie': Sunwar gol, Tani *ge, Sangtam Naga ŋa-ke, Pumi *gV(N), Jiarong nǝ ʒ-gǝ.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-kach,stibet-kir,stibet-comments,
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *gol
Meaning: to lie
Sunwar: gol-
kiret-prnum,kiret-meaning,kiret-sun,
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