Kiranti etymology : List with all references

Proto-Kiranti: *phǝ́k (/*ʔpǝks)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: break

Tulung: phɛk- break by stretching, beaks- break on stretching (as rope) (itr.); phɛ(k)-so(k)- shoot with bow and arrow, phephɛkca bow

Kaling: 'phonä ('phogu) break long things; -phu in lɔphu bow

Yamphu: okma 'to chop with an axe'

Comments: Cf. *pǝ́k.

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: okma I

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Stem: <og- ; ok->

Grammar: v.intr. & v.tr.

Meaning: to chop with an axe.

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phjǝ̆k

Meaning: destroy

Chinese: 副 *phǝk cleave, divide.

Burmese: pjak be destroyed, phjak destroy.

Kachin: bjak² be destroyed (prob. < Burm.); phjaʔ³ chop, hack.

Lushai: peʔ to break or be broken.

Lepcha: păk to be cut off

Kiranti: *phǝ́k 'break'; *phák 'separate, divide'

Comments: Mat. 200.

Chinese characters :

Character: 副

Modern (Beijing) reading: fù

Preclassic Old Chinese: phrǝk

Classic Old Chinese: phrǝk

Western Han Chinese: phrǝk

Eastern Han Chinese: phrǝk

Early Postclassic Chinese: phɨk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phɨk

Late Postclassic Chinese: phɨk

Middle Chinese: phɨk

English meaning : to rend, split

Russian meaning[s]: 1) помогать; помощник; заместитель, вице-; 2) второй; вторичный, побочный; дубликат, копия; 3) соответствовать; 4) комплект, набор

Comments: Also read *phǝk, MC phük id. Another reading is *phǝk-s, MC phǝ̀w, Mand. fù (hence Viet. phó) 'a k. of head-dress' (thus in Shi 47.1); since Han the word obtained the meaning 'next in rank, deputy' (it is not quite clear whether these two meanings of *phǝk-s > phǝ̀w are actually related to each other).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 18

Four-angle index: 2825

Karlgren code: 0933 s

Vietnamese reading: phó

Shijing occurrences: 47.1

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