Kiranti etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛōt

Meaning: free, let loose

Chinese: 脫 *ƛ_ōt, *Ł_ōt to peel off, let loose.

Tibetan: lhod loose, relaxed, glod to loosen, relax; to comfort, console (perhaps a different root, cf. OCh. 悅 *Łot pleased, glad).

Burmese: lwat be at liberty, free, unrestrained, kjwat be freed from, khjwat to release, free, emancipate, LB *-lwat.

Kachin: lot² to escape, (H) khjot to banish, expel, exile; tat³ to liberate.

Lushai: hlut (LS) to take pleasure in.

Lepcha: lŭt to liberate, to save, to ransom; lut to uncover, to strip off, as skin, bark, thatch, to turn over as leaf of book; lját to get loose

Kiranti: *plut(-s) to loosen, *lót pull out

Comments: Sh. 40; Ben. 48; Mat. 199; Gong 48. Cf. PAA *lǝt / *lot 'run away'; *lVt 'to peel, pull away', PAN *-lus (see Sag 37).

Chinese characters :

Character: 脫

Modern (Beijing) reading: tuō

Preclassic Old Chinese: ƛōt

Classic Old Chinese: ƛwāt

Western Han Chinese: l̥wāt

Eastern Han Chinese: l̥wāt

Early Postclassic Chinese: thwāt

Middle Postclassic Chinese: thwāt

Late Postclassic Chinese: thwāt

Middle Chinese: thwât

English meaning : to take off, let loose

Russian meaning[s]: 1) снимать (шляпу, платье); раздеваться; обнажить, сбросить кожу; вылупиться; сдирать мясо с костей; 2) сложить с себя; избавиться от..., освободиться; избежать; не стесняться; вольный, свободный; 3) пренебречь, упустить; утратить; потерять; 4) просочиться; разгласить; 5) суффикс глаголов, указывающих завершенность действия с падением или утратой чего-л.; [tuǒ] покинуть, оставить, бросить; порвать с...

Comments: Also read *Ł(h)ōt, MC dwât (FQ 徒活) id.; *ƛ(h)ōts, MC thwầj, Mand. tùi 'be gentle' (thus in Shi 23,3; this is a derived meaning: 'be gentle, relax' < 'be loose'). Viet. lột is an archaic loanword; regular Sino-Viet. is thoát. See also 蛻, 稅.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 7397

Karlgren code: 0324 m

Vietnamese reading: lột

Jianchuan Bai: lui4, the6

Dali Bai: lui5

Bijiang Bai: lui4, thua4

Shijing occurrences: 23.3

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1270

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 脫

MC description : 山合一入末透

ZIHUI: 5192 0256

Beijing: thuo 11

Jinan: thuǝ 11

Xi'an: thuo 11

Taiyuan: thuaʔ 41; thuǝʔ 41

Hankou: tho 12

Chengdu: tho 12

Yangzhou: thoʔ 4

Suzhou: thôʔ 41

Wenzhou: thö 41

Changsha: tho 4

Shuangfeng: thuɛ 12

Nanchang: thɔt 41

Meixian: thɔt 41

Guangzhou: thyt 43

Xiamen: thuat 41

Chaozhou: thuk 41

Fuzhou: tuaʔ 41

Shanghai: thoʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: thuo 42

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