Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nV̄m

Meaning: take, pinch, gather

Chinese: 捻 *nhēmʔ (since Han), 拈 *nhēm (since MCh) to pinch, take in the fingers, pick up.

Tibetan: snom (p. bsnams, f. bsnam) to take, to seize, take up, nom (p. noms) to seize, to lay hold of.

Kachin: (H) kǝnom to gather, amass, hoard.

Comments: Cf. also OCh. 任 *nǝm (~-im) carry, to load. The root occasionally reveals the semantics *'pinch, seize' > 'bite', cf. Motuo ŋam ( < *ńVm), Gallong ńam.

Chinese characters :

Character: 捻

Modern (Beijing) reading: niǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhēmʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nhḗm

Western Han Chinese: nhjā́m

Eastern Han Chinese: nhiā́m

Early Postclassic Chinese: nhiḗm

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nhiḗm

Late Postclassic Chinese: nhiḗm

Middle Chinese: níem

English meaning : to pinch, take by fingers [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) растирать пальцами, катать; мять; крутить; 2) жгутик; фитиль; 3) факельщики (повстанцы на севере Китая, 1865 - 1868 гг.); [niē] мять; ковырять, вм. 捏

Comments: Also read *nhēp, MC niep, Mand. niē id. ( = 鑷 q.v.); for *nh cf. Xiamen liap⁷, Chaozhou niǝp⁷, Fuzhou niek⁷, Jianou nie⁷, Meixian ńiap⁷. Viet. nhúm 'pinch (of salt, etc.)' is a colloquial loan; standard Sino-Vietnamese readings of the character are niệp and nẫm.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 8427

Vietnamese reading: nhúm

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