Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 611

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 泥

MC description : 蟹開四平齊泥

ZIHUI: 3136 0592

Beijing: ni 12

Jinan: ńi 12

Xi'an: ńi 12

Taiyuan: ni 1

Hankou: ni 12

Chengdu: ńi 12

Yangzhou: ni 12

Suzhou: ńi 12

Wenzhou: ńi 12

Changsha: ńi 12

Shuangfeng: ńi 12

Nanchang: ńi 31

Meixian: nai 12

Guangzhou: nai 12

Xiamen: nĩ 12 (lit.); nĩ 31

Chaozhou: ni 12

Fuzhou: nɛ 12 (lit.); na 12

Shanghai: ńi 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: ni 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 泥

Modern (Beijing) reading: ní

Preclassic Old Chinese: nǝ̄j

Classic Old Chinese: nǝ̄j

Western Han Chinese: nǝ̄j

Eastern Han Chinese: nǝ̄j

Early Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄j

Late Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: niej

English meaning : mire, mud, (to plaster)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) грязь, слякоть, трясина; грязный, липкий; обрызгать грязью; испачкаться; 2) необожженная глина; глиняный; глинобитный; известка, штукатурка; штукатурить; лепить; [nì] 1) погрязнуть (в чем-либо); предаваться (привычке); 2) прилипнуть; 3) удерживать, не пускать; [nǐ] 1) густой; обильный (напр. о росе); 2) мягкий и блестящий, глянцевитый

Comments: For *n- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou ni², Fuzhou nä², Jianou nai². Also read *n(h)ǝ̄jʔ, MC níej, Mand. nǐ 'be plentiful, numerous'. Standard Sino-Viet. is nê.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 7006

Karlgren code: 0563 d

Vietnamese reading: nề

Jianchuan Bai: ni7-

Dali Bai: ne7

Bijiang Bai: ne7-

Shijing occurrences: 36.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ń[ɨ̄]l

Meaning: dirt, mire

Chinese: 泥 *nǝ̄j mud, mire.

Tibetan: ńal-ńil filth, dirt.

Burmese: ńwan, nunh alluvium, deep mud or mire.

Kachin: pǝnen¹, pu¹-nen¹ phlegm, mucus, secreted by a snake.

Lushai: KC *nēl 'sand'

Comments: Cf. perhaps some words for 'ashes': Naga Mao pi-vo-ni, Khezhama pa-vɨ-nuo; Nung (Nusu) dʒɛr.42 nhɛr.42; Trung (Anong) ńi.33 xi.55.