Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chăr

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: new, fresh

Chinese: 鮮 *shar fresh (fish, meat), good, freshly bright.

Tibetan: gsar-ma new, fresh.

Burmese: ćhanh to advance, wax, as the new moon; to be new, strange, unusual

Lushai: thar be new, be fresh, KC *thā̆r.

Comments: PG *chár new; Garo -dar; Kham sar^L; Rgyarung gsar; Rawang aŋsar, Trung aŋ³-săr¹. Sh. 52, 443; Ben. 147.

Character: 鮮

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiān

Preclassic Old Chinese: shar

Classic Old Chinese: shan

Western Han Chinese: shan

Eastern Han Chinese: shjan

Early Postclassic Chinese: shjen

Middle Postclassic Chinese: shjen

Late Postclassic Chinese: shjen

Middle Chinese: sjen

English meaning : be fresh

Russian meaning[s]: 1) свежий (о цветах; о пище); новый, молодой; вкусный; свежая рыба; парное мясо; 2) Сянь (фамилия); [xiǎn] 1) редкий; мало; сиротливый; 2) истощиться; 3) умереть насильственной смертью

Comments: Also read *s(h)arʔ 'be rare, few; exceptional, special, good; solitary'. Viet. presents an interesting case of -i for OC -n < *-r (cf. an analogous case in 蒜 'garlic'). Standard Sino-Viet. is tiên. For *sh- cf. Min reflexes: Xiamen, Chaozhou chĩ¹.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 195

Four-angle index: 2509

Karlgren code: 0209 a-c

Go-on: sen

Kan-on: sen

Japanese reading: sen+;azayaka+

Vietnamese reading: tu'o'i

Shijing occurrences: 43.1_

Number: 2338

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 鮮

MC description : 山開三平仙心

ZIHUI: 7639 1873

Beijing: śian 11

Jinan: śiã 11

Xi'an: śiã 11

Taiyuan: śiɛ 1

Hankou: śian 11

Chengdu: śyan 11

Yangzhou: śĩ 11

Suzhou: sî 11

Wenzhou: śi 11

Changsha: siẽ 11

Shuangfeng: suî̃ 11

Nanchang: śiɛn 11

Meixian: siɛn 11

Guangzhou: šin 11

Xiamen: sian 11 (lit.); sĩ 11

Chaozhou: chĩ 11

Fuzhou: sieŋ 11

Shanghai: sî 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: sien 1

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *sṭárV ( ~ sd, -l-)

Meaning: fresh

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: *chăr

Yenisseian: *tul- ( ~ -r-)

Comments and references : Differently in NSC 52.

Proto-Yenisseian: *tul- ( ~ -r-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: new

Ket: túĺem 'small (of a child, suckling) (Werner 2, 286)

Yug: tulɨm^5,6

Comments: ССЕ 290. Werner 2, 286, 287 *t^hul-.

Borean (approx.) : CVRV

Meaning : new, young

Eurasiatic : *CVrV

Afroasiatic : *ĉVr- child? or Berb. *trar 'new', Omot. *ʔan-dir id.?

Sino-Caucasian : *sṭárV ( ~ sd, -l-)

Notes : Cf. also Ainu *asir 'new'.

Eurasiatic: *CVrV

Meaning: new, fresh

Borean: Borean

Chukchee-Kamchatkan: Chuk. *tur(ʒi)- new, young

Comments: So far only known in Siberian languages.

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ĉVr-

Meaning: child

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *ŝVr(r)- 'child'

Egyptian: šr(y) (pyr) 'child'

Number: 1373

Proto-Semitic: *ŝVr(r)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'child'

Akkadian: šerru

Old Egyptian: šr(y) (pyr)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'child'

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