Kiranti etymology : List with all references

Proto-Kiranti: *nù

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: good

Tulung: nü- be well, be right, be permissible

Kaling: nünä (nüŋɔ) to improve, recover (from ilness), nü all right, nüpä right

Limbu: nu good, just, nube fine, numā beautiful, no right, kunobā good, lovely, kenobā gentle

Dumi: nɨnɨ

Kulung: nǝma

Yamphu: numa

Comments: Toba 90 *'nepä.

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: numaʔ, -nur-/-nu-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vi.

Meaning: be alright, be O.K., be well, be fitting, be suitable, be in good health, get well.

Dumi dictionary :

Entry: nɨnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-4 no:-nu-nɨ

Meaning: be good, be alright, be fine

Derivation: [> tsanɨkpa ]

Comments: cf. tsa: nɨnɨ vi-4

Kulung dictionary :

Entry: nǝma

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vi-7 [1: nɔi- 2: nɔ- 3: nǝi- 4: nǝ-]

Meaning: be good, get better

Nepali: niko hunu.

Comments: nam nǝi-e 'It is sunny.' ca nǝ 'It tastes good', ɔ:-ji nǝ 'I am happy.'

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: numa

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Stem: <-nud-/-nus- ; -nu->

Grammar: v.intr.aux.

Meaning: to be good to; (in combination with the auxiliary cama:) to be easy, to be nice, to be pleasant

Comments: lä:tcanuma to be easy to do; namjanuma to smell nice.

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nɨ̄ (/*nɨ̄ŋ)

Meaning: can, able

Chinese: 能 *n_ǝ̄, *n_ǝ̄ŋ be able, can.

Tibetan: nus be able.

Burmese: nǝuŋ potential, can, able to.

Kachin: (H) nu be able, capable.

Kiranti: *nù good, right, permissible

Comments: Cf. also Sulung a-niaŋ, Sichuan *nV 'good'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 能

Modern (Beijing) reading: néng

Preclassic Old Chinese: nǝ̄

Classic Old Chinese: nǝ̄

Western Han Chinese: nǝ̄

Eastern Han Chinese: nǝ̄

Early Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄

Late Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: nʌŋ

English meaning : to be capable, have ability

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мочь, быть в состоянии; уметь; 2) способность, талант; компетентный; 3) энергия, сила; 4) приручать; 5) древн. медведь

Comments: Zhou rhymes point unambiguously to *nǝ̄, but the form with -ŋ is also archaic (cf. the external parallels). A regular MC reflex is attested in the FQ 奴來 *nʌj - cf. perhaps Viet. nô`i 'to be able (to do smth.)' (although the tone is not clear). For *n- cf. Min reflexes: Xiamen liŋ², Chaozhou leŋ², Fuzhou neŋ², Jianou naiŋ⁹.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 7025

Karlgren code: 0885 a-e

Vietnamese reading: năng

Shijing occurrences: 26.5, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, 33.3, 35.5, 54.2

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1045

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 能

MC description : 曾開一平登泥

ZIHUI: 5174 2446

Beijing: nǝŋ 12

Jinan: nǝŋ 12

Xi'an: nǝŋ 12

Taiyuan: nǝŋ 1

Hankou: nǝn 12

Chengdu: nǝn 12

Yangzhou: nǝn 12

Suzhou: nǝn 12

Wenzhou: naŋ 12

Changsha: nǝn 12

Shuangfeng: niɛ̃ 12

Nanchang: lɛn 31

Meixian: nɛn 12

Guangzhou: naŋ 12

Xiamen: lîŋ 12

Chaozhou: leŋ 12

Fuzhou: neiŋ 12

Shanghai: nǝŋ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: nǝŋ 12

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