Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nru ( ~ -o, -aw)

Meaning: buy, price

Tibetan: ńo (p., i. ńos) to buy.

Kachin: mǝnu¹ a price, cost.

Comments: Cf. perhaps OC 貿 *mrō(ʔ)-s ( ~ *mrū(ʔ)-s) 'to barter' < *m-nru ? ( = Jnp. mǝnu).

Chinese characters :

Character: 貿

Modern (Beijing) reading: mào

Preclassic Old Chinese: mrō(ʔ)s

Classic Old Chinese: mrōh

Western Han Chinese: mrōh

Eastern Han Chinese: mrōh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mọ̄̀

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mọ̄̀

Late Postclassic Chinese: mọ̄̀

Middle Chinese: mʌ̀w

English meaning : to barter, exchange

Russian meaning[s]: 1) покупать; менять; торговать; торговля; коммерция; 2) перен. слепой; слепо, безрассудно

Comments: Xiesheng would favour a reconstruction *mrū(ʔ)-s (with irregular development in MC - attested also in some other cases with labial initials); unfortunately there are no old rhymes for the word. Standard Sino-Viet. is mậu; another old loan from the same source is probably Viet. mua 'to buy, purchase'. For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen bau⁶, Chaozhou mou⁴, Fuzhou mau⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 8030

Karlgren code: 1114 j-k

Go-on: mu, mo

Kan-on: bou

Japanese reading: bō;motomeru;akinau

Vietnamese reading: mão

Shijing occurrences: 58.1

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1534

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 貿

MC description : 流開一去候明

ZIHUI: 6319 1301

Beijing: mau 3

Jinan: mɔ 3

Xi'an: mau 3

Taiyuan: mau 3

Hankou: mou 3

Chengdu: moŋ 3

Yangzhou: mo 3

Suzhou: möy 12

Wenzhou: mз 12

Changsha: môu 31

Shuangfeng: mie 32

Nanchang: mɛu 32

Meixian: mɛu 3

Guangzhou: mau 32

Xiamen: bauʔ 41

Chaozhou: mou 22

Fuzhou: mau 32

Shanghai: mɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: mou 3

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