Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lĕk

Meaning: good, easy

Chinese: 易 *leks easy, negligent, at ease.

Tibetan: legs good, happy; neat, elegant.

Kachin: khrak³ be good.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 87.

Chinese characters :

Character: 易

Modern (Beijing) reading: yì

Preclassic Old Chinese: leks

Classic Old Chinese: leh

Western Han Chinese: leh

Eastern Han Chinese: źeh

Early Postclassic Chinese: źè

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jè

Late Postclassic Chinese: jè

Middle Chinese: jè

English meaning : be easy; at ease; neglect

Comments: Also read OC *lek, MC jek, Mand. yì 'to change'. Viet. dễ is colloquial, and another colloquial loanword from the same source (MC jè) must be Viet. dê` 'to despise' ( < 'consider easy, neglect'). An archaic (WH) loan from the same source may be Viet. lẹ 'swift, rapid, easy(-going)'. Regular Sino-Vietnamese readings are dị ( < MC jè), dịch ( < MC jek).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0850 a-e

Vietnamese reading: dễ

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 589

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 易

MC description : A: 止開三去寘以; B: 梗開三入昔以

ZIHUI: A: 2496 0722; B: 2496 0729

Beijing: A: i 3; B: i 3

Jinan: A: i 3; B: i 3

Xi'an: A: i 3; B: i 3

Taiyuan: A: i 3; B: i 3

Hankou: A: i 3; B: i 3

Chengdu: A: i 3; B: i 3

Yangzhou: A: i 3; B: iǝʔ 4

Suzhou: A: i 32; B: iôʔ 42

Wenzhou: A: ɦi 32; B: ɦiai 42

Changsha: A: i 32; B: i 4

Shuangfeng: A: i 12; B: i 12

Nanchang: A: it 41; B: it 41

Meixian: A: ji 3; B: jit 42

Guangzhou: A: ji 32; B: jîk 42

Xiamen: A: i 32; B: iaʔ 42

Chaozhou: A: i 22; B: ek 42

Fuzhou: A: ei 32; B: iʔ 42

Shanghai: A: ii 32; B: ii 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: A: i 43; B: i 43

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