Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ś[a]w

Meaning: melt, boil

Chinese: 消 *saw melt, dissolve.

Lushai: so boil.

Comments: Rawang ǝsu boil, thisu boiling water; Lakher śaeu boil; Meithei ǝsau heat. Sh. 55; Ben. 63 (cf. *cu).

Chinese characters :

Character: 消

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiāo

Preclassic Old Chinese: saw

Classic Old Chinese: saw

Western Han Chinese: saw

Eastern Han Chinese: sjaw

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjew

Middle Chinese: sjew

English meaning : to melt, dissolve

Russian meaning[s]: 1) рассеяться, растаять, сойти на нет, исчезнуть; рассосаться; 2) потребить, израсходовать; 3) стереть; уничтожить; 4) пользоваться, употреблять; 5) развлекаться, разгонять скуку; 6) негативный; пассивный; отрицательный

Comments: A later meaning is '(dissolve >) disperse, spend'. Standard Sino-Viet. is tiêu.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 3594

Karlgren code: 1149 j

Vietnamese reading: teo

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 981

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 消

MC description : 效開三平宵心

ZIHUI: 3194 1473

Beijing: śiau 11

Jinan: śiɔ 11

Xi'an: śiau 11

Taiyuan: śiau 1

Hankou: śiau 11

Chengdu: śiau 11

Yangzhou: śiɔ 11

Suzhou: siä 11

Wenzhou: śiɛ 11

Changsha: siau 11

Shuangfeng: śiǝ 11

Nanchang: śiɛu 11

Meixian: siau 11

Guangzhou: šiu 11

Xiamen: siau 11

Chaozhou: siǝu 11

Fuzhou: sieu 11

Shanghai: siɔ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: siau 1

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