Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 550

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 延

MC description : 山開三平仙以

ZIHUI: 1693 1903

Beijing: ian 12

Jinan: iã 12

Xi'an: iã 12

Taiyuan: iɛ 1

Hankou: ian 12

Chengdu: ian 12

Yangzhou: î̃ 12

Suzhou: î 12

Wenzhou: ɦi 12

Changsha: iẽ 12

Shuangfeng: î̃ 12

Nanchang: iɛn 31

Meixian: jan 12

Guangzhou: jin 12

Xiamen: ian 12

Chaozhou: ieŋ 22

Fuzhou: yɔŋ 12

Shanghai: iî 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: ien 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 延

Modern (Beijing) reading: yán

Preclassic Old Chinese: Łan

Classic Old Chinese: Łan

Western Han Chinese: lan

Eastern Han Chinese: źan

Early Postclassic Chinese: źen

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jen

Late Postclassic Chinese: jen

Middle Chinese: jen

English meaning : to extend, prolong, continue; delay; invite

Russian meaning[s]: 1) откладывать, оттягивать; отсрочить; длиться, тянуться; продолжительный, затяжной; 2) растягивать; растяжение; 3) приглашать; принимать (гостей); нанимать (на работу); 4) Янь (фамилия)

Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is diên. An archaic loan from the same source is Viet. lan 'to spread, extend'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 54

Four-angle index: 6646

Karlgren code: 0203 a

Vietnamese reading: dan

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛĕn

Meaning: long, extend

Chinese: 延 *Łan extend, 梴 *ƛhan long (as beams).

Kachin: gran² be long, extended.

Lushai: lian big

Comments: Cf. also Puiron ka-lin-nu 'big'.