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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wăH
Meaning: father; man, male
Chinese: *baʔ father; old man.
Kachin: wa1 man, male, kǝwa2 father.
Lepcha: ăvo husband
Kiranti: *[w]àt-c1ǝ̀
Comments: KC: Haka va; Lakher ǝwa husband; Dhimal wa-val man; wa-dźan boy; Kadu ǝwa; Moshang wa; Bunan ǝwa father; Karen *khwV.T 'man'. Ben. 19, 35.
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Chinese characters :

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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fù
Preclassic Old Chinese: baʔ
Classic Old Chinese: bá
Western Han Chinese: bá
Eastern Han Chinese: bwá
Early Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Late Postclassic Chinese: bwó
Middle Chinese: bǘ
English meaning : father, (relative of father's generation:) uncle
Russian meaning[s]: 1) отец, батюшка, папаша; 2) старший родственник; [fǔ] 1) старый (почтенный) селянин; 2) второе имя, прозвище, см.
Shuowen gloss: 巨也.家長率教者.從又.舉杖.
Comments: In early inscriptions the character is sometimes also used instead of 甫 *paʔ (honorific suffix). For initial *b- cf. Min forms: Xiamen pe6, Chaozhou pe4.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0102 a-e
Bijiang Bai: -bo1
Shijing occurrences: 2.3, 10.3, 29.4, 39.2, 51.1, 51.2
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 111
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 遇合三上噳奉
ZIHUI: 3637 0784
Beijing: fu 3
Jinan: fu 3
Xi'an: fu 3
Taiyuan: fu 3
Hankou: fu 3
Chengdu: fu 3
Yangzhou: fu 3
Suzhou: vu 32
Wenzhou: vo_y 22
Changsha: fu 31
Shuangfeng: ɣǝu 32
Nanchang: фu 32
Meixian: fu 3
Guangzhou: fu 32
Xiamen: hu 32 (lit.); pe 32
Chaozhou: pe 22
Fuzhou: xu 32
Shanghai: vu 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: fu 2
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *[w]àt-c1ǝ̀
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: man
Sunwar: 'woj-ś-mur man
Tulung: hoscö, woscö male, man
Kaling: has man, person
Kulung: watcha
Yamphu: jaʔmi 'man, person' (?)
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Kulung dictionary :

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Entry: watcha
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: n.
Meaning: male
Nepali: logne-mānche.
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: yaʔmi
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: n.
Meaning: man, person.
Nepali: mānche
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