Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *thɨam

Meaning: cover, put over

Chinese: 襜 *tham, *thams overcoat; apron.

Tibetan: gtum to veil, cover; wrap up (e.g. the head), thum(s) cover, covering, wrapper, ãthum (p. ãthums, f. btum(s ), i. ãthum, btum) to cover or lay over, put over; to coat.

Lushai: tuam to wrap, wrap round, to bind.

Chinese characters :

Character: 襜

Modern (Beijing) reading: chān

Preclassic Old Chinese: tham

Classic Old Chinese: tham

Western Han Chinese: tham

Eastern Han Chinese: ćham

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćhem

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćhem

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćhem

Middle Chinese: ćhem

English meaning : apron

Comments: A somewhat later attested (but obviously related) meaning is 'carriage curtain fringe'. During Late Zhou the same word obtained several graphic variants (with radical 50 巾 /read also with falling tone *tham-s, MC ćhèm/, or else with the phonetic 炎 in the right part). A possible etymology see under 髧.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0619 e

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