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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wā
Meaning: chew, bite
Burmese: wah to chew.
Kachin: gǝwa3 to bite.
Comments: BG: Dimasa wai, Bodo wat ~ ot. Ben. 101; Mat. 193; Luce 8. Cf. Sherpa phe.LR- 'bite', perhaps also Qiang χbe.33 id., Karen *ʔɔ.1L 'drink', Kham o.1 id.
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Character: 哺
Modern (Beijing) reading: bǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: bās
Classic Old Chinese: bāh
Western Han Chinese: bāh
Eastern Han Chinese: bāh
Early Postclassic Chinese: bṑ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bṑ
Late Postclassic Chinese: bṑ
Middle Chinese: bò
English meaning : to chew; to suck (breast) [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) кормить; 2) жевать; пережевывать
Comments: For *b cf. Xiamen pɔ6, Fuzhou puo6. Regular Sino-Viet. is bộ; Viet. bú may be just a coincidence (derivable from PAA *bʔow 'suckle, suck'). Modern 3d tone is irregular.
Radical: 30
Four-angle index: 3646
Karlgren code: 0102 |i ́
Vietnamese reading: bú
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