Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋăj (-s)

Meaning: right, true

Chinese: 宜 *ŋaj correct, proper, right; 義 ŋajs righteous, -ness; true sense, meaning.

Tibetan: ŋes certain, true, sure, firm.

Comments: Peiros-Starostin 217. Cf. also Ergong ŋi 'good'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 宜

Modern (Beijing) reading: yí

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋaj

Classic Old Chinese: ŋaj

Western Han Chinese: ŋaj

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋe

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋe

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋe

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋe

Middle Chinese: ŋe

English meaning : be correct, proper, right; ought

Russian meaning[s]: 1) соответствовать, подходить; годный, подходящий (для чего-л.); 2) доставлять удовольствие (радость); 3) должно, следует; 4) наладить, урегулировать; 5) И (фамилия)

Shuowen gloss: 所安也.從**之下,一之上.多省聲. [340]

Comments: Viet. ngay is an archaic loan; standard Sino-Viet. is nghi. For *ŋ- cf. Min forms: Xiamen gi², Chaozhou ŋi², Fuzhou ŋie², Jianou ŋi⁹. Shuowen considers 多 to be phonetic here, which is hardly correct (it is rather a semantic element: "much under the roof" = "reason, correctness"). Related to 義 *ŋaj-s 'righteous, true' q.v.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 40

Four-angle index: 620

Karlgren code: 0021 a-g

Vietnamese reading: ngay

Shijing occurrences: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 35.1, 47.1_

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 535

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 宜

MC description : 止開三平支疑

ZIHUI: 1355 0708

Beijing: i 12

Jinan: i 12

Xi'an: i 12

Taiyuan: i 1

Hankou: i 12

Chengdu: ńi 12

Yangzhou: i 12

Suzhou: ńi 12

Wenzhou: ńi 32 (lit.); ŋ 32

Changsha: ńi 12

Shuangfeng: ńi 12

Nanchang: ńi 31

Meixian: ńi 12

Guangzhou: ji 12

Xiamen: gi 12

Chaozhou: ŋi 12

Fuzhou: ŋi 12 (lit.); ŋie 12

Shanghai: ńi 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: i 12

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