Kulung dictionary :

Entry: du:ma

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vt-4 [1: duN- 2: duNN- 3: du:-]

Meaning: drink

Nepali: piunu.

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *ʔtùŋ

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: drink

Sunwar: tū-ca

Tulung: ḍu(ŋ)-

Kaling: tunä (tuŋu)

Limbu: thuŋmā (thuŋ)

Dumi: tɨŋnɨ

Kulung: dūma

Yamphu: uŋma

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: thuNmaʔ, -thuN-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vt.

Meaning: 1) drink; 2) smoke

Comments: 1) cf. thuNmaʔ 2) ho:p-mǝna-bɛ-n kɛ-dhuN-w-i:? (toke-PP-NOM-ABS 2-smoke-3P-Q)\x Will you smoke a cigarette?

Dumi dictionary :

Entry: tɨNnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-1 tɨN

Meaning: drink; smoke

Comments: cf. Nep. piunu.

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: uŋma I

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Stem: <uks- ; uŋ->

Grammar: v.intr. & v.tr.

Meaning: to drink

Comments: i: uŋ.ʔim.m.en.de igh.a.ji, hс sima? igh.a utthri:ʔ.ha.ji, i: uŋ.ʔin.j.e? (beer drink.NP.3PL.FCT.ISF this.PLNR.NS huh father's_elder_sister this.PLNR white.PLNR.NS beer drink.NP.DU.FCT) Do these drink beer, aunt, these white ones, do they drink beer?

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dhɨ̄n / *dhɨ̄ŋ

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: drink, swallow

Chinese: 吞 *thǝ̄n to swallow.

Tibetan: ãthuŋ (p. ãthuŋs, i. ãthuŋ) to drink, suck, smoke.

Burmese: LB *taŋ to drink.

Lushai: dōn drink (poet.).

Lepcha: thăŋ, thoŋ, caus. tjăn to drink

Kiranti: *ʔtùŋ

Comments: Simon 26; Sh. 125. STEDT 242-248 *tuŋ 'suck, milk', *[N/s]-tuŋ 'drink, suck'; OC 湩 *troŋ-s / *tōŋ-s 'milk' is compared by Matissoff, but is attested only since Han, and, according to Pulleyblank (CSOC) may be a Xiongnu borrowing.

Chinese characters :

Character: 吞

Modern (Beijing) reading: tūn

Preclassic Old Chinese: thǝ̄n

Classic Old Chinese: thǝ̄n

Western Han Chinese: thǝ̄n

Eastern Han Chinese: thǝ̄n

Early Postclassic Chinese: thǝ̄n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: thǝ̄n

Late Postclassic Chinese: thǝ̄n

Middle Chinese: thʌn

English meaning : to swallow [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) проглотить; 2) поглотить, присвоить, завладеть; аннексировать

Comments: PST *dhǝ̄n / *dhǝ̄ŋ, cf. Tib. ãthuŋ (p. ãthuŋs, i. ãthuŋ) 'to drink, suck, smoke'; LB *taŋ 'to drink' (?cf. also Burm. tǝuk id.); Lush. dāwn 'drink (poet.)'. See IST 125.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 1378

Karlgren code: 0361 d

Jianchuan Bai: thuɛ̃4

Dali Bai: thui6

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 343

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 吞

MC description : 臻開一平痕透

ZIHUI: 0691 2158

Beijing: thuǝn 11

Jinan: thuẽ 11

Xi'an: thuẽ 11

Taiyuan: thuŋ 1

Hankou: thǝn 11

Chengdu: thǝn 11

Yangzhou: thǝn 11

Suzhou: thǝn 11

Wenzhou: thö 11

Changsha: thǝn 11

Shuangfeng: thiɛ̃ 11

Nanchang: thɛn 11

Meixian: thun 11

Guangzhou: than 11

Xiamen: thun 11

Chaozhou: thuŋ 11

Fuzhou: thouŋ 11

Shanghai: thǝŋ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: thǝn 1

Sino-Caucasian etymology :

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *dVnV

Meaning: drink

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: *dhɨ̄n / *dhɨ̄ŋ

Basque: *e=da[n]

Basque etymology :

Proto-Basque: *e=da(-)n

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: drink

Bizkaian: edan, (Eibar, Lekeitio) eran

Gipuzkoan: edan, (coastal) eran

High Navarrese: edan

Low Navarrese: edan

Salazarese: edan

Lapurdian: edan

Baztanese: edan

Aezkoan: edan

Zuberoan: edan

Roncalese: eran

Comments: With some sporadic changes of /d/ > /r/. Trask (EDB) cites root as *-da[n]-.

Long-range etymologies :

Borean (approx.) : TVNV

Meaning : to melt, flow

Eurasiatic : *dVnV

Afroasiatic : *dVn- 'pour; river' (Cush., Chad.)

Sino-Caucasian : *dVnV 'drink'

African (misc.) : Cf. Bantu *-tónị-, *-tóny- 'rain'.

Reference : Bomhard 1994, 151, ND 543.

Nostratic etymology :

Eurasiatic: *dVnV

Meaning: to melt, flow

Borean: Borean

Indo-European: *dhen-

Kartvelian: *dn-

Dravidian: *tund- '?'

Comments: Cf. Aleut *tāŋa- 'drink'?

References: Bomhard 1994, 151; ND 543 *d[u]nV 'stream, flow'.

Indo-European etymology :

Proto-IE: *dh[e]n(w)-

Nostratic etymology: Nostratic etymology

Meaning: to flow

Tokharian: A tsnā-ntär, pp. tsno 'flow', B tseñe 'river, stream, courant', tsnamo 'flowing' (PT *tsän-) (Adams 741, 744)

Old Indian: dadhánti `to cause to run or move quickly', dhanáyati `id., to move or run', dhanvati `to run or flow'; dhánutar- `running, moving quickly'

Latin: fōns, fontis m. `Quelle'

Russ. meaning: течь

References: WH

Pokorny's dictionary :

Number: 393

Root: dhen-1

English meaning: to run

German meaning: `laufen, rennen; fließen'

Material: Ai. dhanáyati `rennt, lauft, setzt in Bewegung', npers. danīdan `eilen, laufen', ai. dhánvati `rennt, lauft, fließt', apers. danuvatiy `fließt', ai. dhánutar- `rennend, fließend';

    messap. Flurname ardannoa (*ar-dhonu̯-ā) `die am Wasser gelegene' (?), apul. ON Ardaneae = Herdonia (Krahe Gl. 17, 102);

    lat. wahrscheinlich fōns, -tis `Quelle'; vielleicht Kreuzung des to-St. *fontos und ti-St. *fentis (*dhn̥-tí-);

    toch. АВ tsän `fließen', В tseńe `flot', tsnam `écoulement'.

References: WP. I 852, Couvreur BSL. 41, 165.

Pages: 249

PIE database: PIE database

Kartvelian etymology :

Proto-Kartvelian: *dn-

Nostratic: Nostratic

Russian meaning: топить(ся), таять

English meaning: to drown, to melt

Georgian: dn-

Megrel: din-, dǝn-

Megrel meaning (Rus.): исчезать, терять(ся)

Megrel meaning (Eng.): to disappear, to lose

Svan: n-

Laz: ndin-, (n)dun-

Laz meaning (Rus.): исчезать, терять(ся)

Laz meaning (Eng.): to disappear, to lose

Notes and references: ЭСКЯ 74, EWK 112. Ср. ПИЕ *dhen- 'течь, убегать' (IEW 249). Ср. Бомхард 1994, 151.

Dravidian etymology :

Proto-Dravidian : *tund-

Meaning : to pour, spill

Nostratic etymology: Nostratic etymology

Proto-North Dravidian : *tund-

North Dravidian etymology :

Proto-North-Dravidian : *tund-

Meaning : to spill, pour

Dravidian etymology: Dravidian etymology

Kurukh : tundnā "to be poured out, spill, pour into"

Malto : tunde "to spill, shed, throw out as water"

Additional forms : Also KUR tundrnā to be poured out, be spilt; MLT tundg̣re to be spilt, be shed.

Number in DED : 3321

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