Limbu dictionary : List with all references

Entry: tɔkmaʔ, -tɔkt-/-tɔk-

Grammar: vt.

Meaning: 1) hold up, support, keep up straight 2) last someone (of a supply)

Comments: 1) siʔlaNtɔkkrima ille himin mɛdɔktu The pillars support the house; siNin tɔktuN yuksuN I'm holding the stick up vertically so that it won't fall over 2) an:geʔo:ba mɔkwa iNmɛlle yǝllik ya:n tɔktige If we buy our local tea, it lasts us many days.

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *tä́k

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: support

Tulung: tǝk- support (as cooking pot while stirring), regale (quests with alcohol) etc.

Kaling: 'tunä ('taktu)

Limbu: tɔkmaʔ, -tɔkt-/-tɔk-

Yamphu: to:kma

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: to:kma III

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Stem: <to:g- ; to:k->

Grammar: v.tr.

Meaning: to give support, to place something as a means of support, to support something.

Nepali: aḍes dinu

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *t(r)ăk

Meaning: put, pack

Chinese: 著 *trak to place, put, apply.

Tibetan: teg (i. tog) to pack up, put up, put into, ãthegs pack up; theg lift, raise, be able to carry; ãdeg(s) (p. bteg(s), f. gteg, i. theg) to lift, to raise, to support, to weigh.

Kachin: dik³ to put, pack, crowd or jam into.

Kiranti: *tä́k

Comments: The meanings 'lift, support' in Tib. and Kiranti are probably due to contamination with another root, see *thɨāk lift, support. In Chinese one could also compare 寘 *teks 'to place, put down', 置 *trǝks id.

Chinese characters :

Character: 寘

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhì

Preclassic Old Chinese: teks

Classic Old Chinese: teh

Western Han Chinese: teh

Eastern Han Chinese: ćeh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćè

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćè

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćè

Middle Chinese: ćè

English meaning : to place, put down

Russian meaning[s]: вм. 置

Shuowen gloss: 置也.

Comments: The word is not attested in rhymes, and the final reconstruction is somewhat uncertain. 真 as phonetic is surprising here: it is not a *-r-series, and we would expect something like MC *ćìn if this were the case. A possible hypothesis is that 真 here is a graphic distortion of 直 (OC *drǝk); the MC reading ćè is also not entirely regular in this case (one would rather expect *ćɨ̀ < *tǝks) - but we may guess that 直 was chosen as a "phonosemantic" element here, because of the similarity of OC 寘 *teks 'to put, place' and 置 *trǝks 'to put, set up' (cf. the definition in Shuowen).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 40

Four-angle index: 7912

Karlgren code: 0375 x-y

Shijing occurrences: 3.1

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