Kiranti etymology : List with all references

Proto-Kiranti: *go(ŋ)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: in, inside

Tulung: gonu within

Kaling: -gobi in, inside, goju within

Limbu: o, jo in

Dumi: ho- (?)

Kulung: gɔ̄

Yamphu: hoŋsiʔ 'inside'

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: o:

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: postp. locative.

Dumi dictionary :

Entry: hobi

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: postp.

Meaning: inside, within

Nepali: bhitra.

Derivation: [*ho- 'inside' + bi loc.sf.]

Comments: cf. hobu, hobɨ, hoptɨ, hoy

Kulung dictionary :

Entry: gɔ:

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: inside

Nepali: bhitra.

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: hoŋsiʔ

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: suffix.

Meaning: (in both locational and directional senses) inside

Comments: hoŋsittu up inside; hoŋsiʔyu inside across a horizontal plane; hoŋsiʔmu down inside.

Nepali: bhitra

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ɣūk

Meaning: inside, interior

Chinese: 奧 *ʔūks inside area; bay; interior.

Tibetan: khog the interior, inside.

Kachin: nkhuʔ³ inside, the inside.

Kiranti: *go(ŋ) (?)

Comments: Cf. Garo ok, Konyak *vVk, Maring uk 'belly'. Cf. PAN *luquk 'bay'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 奧

Modern (Beijing) reading: ào

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔuk

Classic Old Chinese: ʔuk

Western Han Chinese: ʔǝuk

Eastern Han Chinese: ʔǝuk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨuk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔuk

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔuk

Middle Chinese: ʔük

English meaning : bay, cove (in bank of stream)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) глубокий; потайной; таинственный; 2) важный, основной; 3) юго-западный угол дома; внутренние покои; 4) свиной загон (хлев); 5) сокр. Австрия; [yù] закругление (берега)

Comments: Also read *ʔūk-s, MC ʔầw (FQ 烏到), Mand. ào 'bay; inside area'. Since Late Zhou the word started to obtain a more general meaning 'inside, interior', while the original meaning 'bay, cove' was more usually rendered with the character 澳. The latter is now also used as a shortened name for Australia.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 37

Four-angle index: 4905

Karlgren code: 1045 a

Vietnamese reading: úc

Shijing occurrences: 55.1, 55.2, 55.3

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