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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mĭjH
Meaning: sleep
Chinese: *m_ijs sleep, lie down to sleep.
Tibetan: rmi (pf. rmis) to dream.
Burmese: hmijh to doze.
Kachin: (H) šǝmui be heavy with sleep.
Comments: Midzhu mui; Kham mìrǝ-hu to become sleepy (hu come); Magari mi; Rgyarung karmye. Ben. 47. Cf. also Burm. hmijh doze.
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: mèi
Preclassic Old Chinese: m(h)ijs
Classic Old Chinese: m(h)ić
Western Han Chinese: m(h)jǝś
Eastern Han Chinese: m(h)jǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: m(h)jiś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: m(h)jìj
Late Postclassic Chinese: m(h)jì
Middle Chinese: mjì
English meaning : to sleep
Russian meaning[s]: спать
Shuowen gloss: 臥也.從夢省.未聲.
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Radical: 40
Four-angle index: 5331
Karlgren code: 0531 i-j
Shijing occurrences: 1.2, 26.1, 30.3_, 30.4, 56.1, 56.2, 56.3, 58.5
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