Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tă (~ d-)

Meaning: all, total

Chinese: 諸 *ta many, all; 庶 *ta(k)s many, abundant

Tibetan: tha everything, all, total; dag sign of the plural (?)

Burmese: taʔ-ka, taʔ-kaʔ 'all'

Comments: Cf. also Naga *tV (Thangkur hup-ta, Angami pe-te etc.), Magar pǝṭ-ṭǝ, Naxi dɨ, Qiang kin-di id. Suffixed forms, beside Tib. dag, include also perhaps Bodo-Garo: Rabha dɨm-dak 'all'; Gurung tān id.; Trung (Anong) a-daŋ id. Cf. *tajH.

Chinese characters :

Character: 諸

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhū

Preclassic Old Chinese: ta

Classic Old Chinese: ta

Western Han Chinese: ta

Eastern Han Chinese: ća

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćo

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćo

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćo

Middle Chinese: ćö

English meaning : all, forms plurals, especially for persons to whom respect is due

Russian meaning[s]: 1) все; каждый; в вэньяне служит для выражения множественного числа; 2) является фонетическим стяжением 之 и 於, или 之 и 乎: а) в середине предложения равно 之 (как показателю объекта) плюс 於 (как предлогу); б) в конце предложения равно 之 (как показателю объекта) плюс 乎 (вопросительной частице); 3) древн. эвфония; 4) Чжу (фамилия)

Comments: Used also for a homonymous particle *ta (Sch.: 'meaning not clear'), as well as for a fusion of 之 *tǝ + 於 *ʔa (= *ta).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 149

Four-angle index: 1603

Karlgren code: 0045 p

Go-on: siyo

Kan-on: siyo

Japanese reading: sho;moromoro;kore

Vietnamese reading: chu'

Shijing occurrences: 26.5, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, 39.1, 39.2

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2070

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 諸

MC description : 遇合三平魚章

ZIHUI: 6175 0848

Beijing: c̣u 11

Jinan: c̣u 11

Xi'an: pfu 11

Taiyuan: cu 1

Hankou: ćy 11

Chengdu: cu 11

Yangzhou: cu 11

Suzhou: cü 11

Wenzhou: ci_ 11

Changsha: ćy 11

Shuangfeng: ty 11

Nanchang: ćy 11

Meixian: cu 11

Guangzhou: čy 11

Xiamen: cu 11

Chaozhou: cu 11

Fuzhou: cy 11

Shanghai: ci_ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: čiu 1