Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tūH (~ d-, -ɨ̄wH)

Meaning: pray, magic ceremony

Chinese: 禱 *tūʔ pray, 禂 *tūʔ read blessings over animals about to be sacrificed.

Tibetan: gto a magic ceremony for the purpose of averting misfortune.

Lepcha: dă 1 to repeat the charm 2 a spec. of offering made of rolls of coloured cotton, to propitiate certain evil spirits (?)

Comments: PAN *uduq 'charm, magic'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 禱

Modern (Beijing) reading: dǎo

Preclassic Old Chinese: tūʔ

Classic Old Chinese: tū́

Western Han Chinese: tǝ̄́w

Eastern Han Chinese: tǝ̄́w

Early Postclassic Chinese: tǝ̄́w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tā́w

Late Postclassic Chinese: tā́w

Middle Chinese: tấw

English meaning : to pray

Russian meaning[s]: молить(ся), заклинать, умолять; молитва

Comments: Also read *tūʔ-s, MC tầw, Mand. dào id.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 113

Four-angle index: 3114

Karlgren code: 1090 s

Vietnamese reading: d_a`o

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2420

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 禱

MC description : 效開一上皓端

ZIHUI: 4411 1304

Beijing: tau 2

Jinan: tɔ 2

Xi'an: tau 2

Taiyuan: tau 2

Hankou: tau 2

Chengdu: tau 2

Yangzhou: tɔ 2

Suzhou: tä 2

Wenzhou: tз 21

Changsha: tau 2

Shuangfeng: tǝ 2

Nanchang: tau 2

Meixian: tau 2

Guangzhou: tou 21

Xiamen: to 2

Chaozhou: tau 21

Fuzhou: tɔ 2

Shanghai: tɔ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: tau 2

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