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Character: 墊
Modern (Beijing) reading: diàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: tīms
Classic Old Chinese: tīmh
Western Han Chinese: tjǝ̄mh
Eastern Han Chinese: tiǝ̄mh
Early Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm
Middle Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm
Late Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm
Middle Chinese: tìem
English meaning : to submerge
Russian meaning[s]: 1) подпорка; подкладка, подушка, подстилка; рессора; 2) восполнить; доплатить; авансировать; уплатить (за кого-л.); 3) опуститься, пасть; 4) быть затопленным
Comments: Later attested are the meanings 'throw down, overwhelm'; 'bottom' > 'support; pillow, mattress' (which makes probable the borrowed character of Viet. nệm - although the nasal initial is still strange). Standard Sino-Viet. is d_iếm.
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 245
Karlgren code: 0685 o
Vietnamese reading: nệm
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tīm
Meaning: sink, merge
Tibetan: dim to sink, thim to dissapear by being imbibed, absorbed; to sink, stim (p. bstims, f. bstim, i. stims) be absorbed in.
Burmese: thim to keep back, conceal, tim shallow; sunk, in decline.
Lepcha: thyám, thyóm to precipitate, to cleanse by precipitation, as to put rice into water to allow the sand and dirt to settle at bottom
Comments: Simon 23; Luce 44; Gong 86. Here perhaps also Taraon tim 'drink'. Cf. PAN *edem 'soak, dye'.
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *tä̀m
Meaning: soak
Tulung: tam- make water collect in, add water to, soak
Kaling: tämnä (tämu) soak, for a long time
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Dumi dictionary :
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Entry: ta:mnɨ
Grammar: vt-1 ta:m
Meaning: dunk under, dip, plunge, immerse, sink
Nepali: ḍubāunu
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Kulung dictionary :
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Entry: tamma
Grammar: vi-1 [1: tam-]
Meaning: drip
Nepali: cuhinu.
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Yamphu dictionary :
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Entry: tomma
Stem: <tops- ; tom->
Grammar: v.intr. & v.tr.
Meaning: 1a) to stream to one place; b) to be dammed and fill up; c) to become a pool or pond; 2a) collect a liquid substance in a certain place b) to dig a pool, to make a pond c) to build a dam in a stream
Comments: 2a) summak.peʔ.yu hari tom.yuŋ.beʔ.m.ä. (mortar.LOC.HRZ blood collect_fluid.put.DAT.INF.FCT) Collect the blood in the large wooden mortar. b) hс:sa pha:k.tha tomma.psa tops.u. (hās swim.LCP pool.little make_pool.о3) He dug a small pool for the ducks to swim in. c) panthara pokkhori tops.u.ji. (five_clans pokharī dam.о3.3NS) They built the water place of the five clans.
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