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Character: 隱
Modern (Beijing) reading: yǐn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔǝnʔ
Classic Old Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Western Han Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔǝ́n
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨ́n
Middle Chinese: ʔɨ́́n
Fanqie: 倚謹 [a] 倚覲 [b]
Rhyme class: 吻 [a] 震 [b]
English meaning : to correct
Russian meaning[s]: 1) скрытый, тайный; скрывать, прятать; загадка; 2) уединяться; уйти со службы; жить на покое; 3) болеть; боль, страдание; 4) бедный, нищий; 5) тщательно взвешивать (обдумывать); вынашивать; [yìn] опираться, облокачиваться
Shuowen gloss: 蔽也. 從阜. [-隱]聲.
Comments: Also means 'suffering, painful'. A reconstruction OC *ʔǝrʔ is also possible (no OC rhymes for the word are attested). The more usual meaning of the character is 'to hide'; it occurs in texts since Late Zhou.
Radical: 170
Four-angle index: 8357
Karlgren code: 0449 a
Vietnamese reading: â`n
Shijing occurrences: 26.1
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ɣǝ̆nH (~-ɫH, -rH)
Meaning: hide
Kachin: (H) lǝkan to hide, as a theft.
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-kach,
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Number: 2330
Character: 隱
MC description : 臻開三上隱影
ZIHUI: 7148 2148
Beijing: in 2
Jinan: iẽ 2
Xi'an: iẽ 2
Taiyuan: iŋ 2
Hankou: in 2
Chengdu: in 2
Yangzhou: ĩ XH
Suzhou: in 2
Wenzhou: iaŋ 21
Changsha: in 2
Shuangfeng: in 2
Nanchang: in 2
Meixian: vun 2
Guangzhou: jan 21
Xiamen: un 2
Chaozhou: uŋ 21
Fuzhou: yŋ 2
Shanghai: iiŋ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: iǝn 2
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *=ēʕwVn
Meaning: to lose, hide
Comments and references : WFR 130. In ST cf. alternatively *ʔŏŋH (~ ɣ-); sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-basq,sccet-notes,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *=ēʕwVn
Meaning: to lose, get lost
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. One of the common EC verbal roots with a laryngeal root consonant.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-aand,caucet-cez,caucet-darg,caucet-comment,
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *=aw- ( ~ -ā-)
Meaning: 1 to lose 2 to get lost, be lost
Chechen: =ā- 1
Ingush: =a 2
Batsbi: =aw- 2
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-bcb,
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *-VHVn-
Meaning: to get lost, disappear
Avar: ṭáʕn-
Chadakolob: ṭáʕn-
Comments: The initial ṭ- is either an expressive preverb, or a remnant of another verbal root (cf. And. =iṭ- 'to get lost'); the whole form may in that case reflect a contraction of a historical compound.
aandet-prnum,aandet-meaning,aandet-ava,aandet-avc,aandet-comment,
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Tsezian etymology :
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Proto-Tsezian: *=ǝʔ-
Meaning: to get lost, disappear
Bezhta: =oʔ- (Tlad.)
Gunzib: =ǝʔ-
Comments: PGB *=ǝʔ-.
cezet-prnum,cezet-meaning,cezet-bzt,cezet-gnz,cezet-comment,
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Dargwa etymology :
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Proto-Dargwa: *=iʕʷ(Vn)-
Meaning: to steal
Akusha: =ilʕ-
Chiragh: =iʕʷVn-/=ilʕʷ-
Comments: Cf. also Ur. =iʕ- / =ilʕ-, Kub. =aʕ- / =ilʕ- id.
darget-prnum,darget-meaning,darget-drg,darget-chr,darget-comment,
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Basque etymology :
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Proto-Basque: *o=hoin
Meaning: 1 thief 2 to steal, rob
Araban: oñ 1, os-tu 2
Bizkaian: oos-tu, os-tu 2, (arc) ons-tu 2, (arc) uuñ 1
Gipuzkoan: os-tu 2
Low Navarrese: ohoin 1
Lapurdian: ohoin 1
Baztanese: ooin 1
Zuberoan: ũhúñ 1
Comments: The noun 'thief' is attested mainly in northeastern dialects, while southwestern dialects have the derived verb *ohoin-ś-tu.
basqet-prnum,basqet-meaning,basqet-arb,basqet-bzk,basqet-gip,basqet-bnv,basqet-lab,basqet-bzt,basqet-zbr,basqet-comments,
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