Yenisseian etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *jǝ̆w

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: all, everything

Tibetan: jo-ba everything, altogether.

Kachin: (Sh.) ju all.

Lushai: KC *yo.

Kiranti: *jV-n

Comments: Sh 408. Cf. also: Kham g-yōh, Tani *ka-yi, Naga *kǝ-zV, Kaike ki- 'big'; with nasal suffixation Limbu yǝn-, Konyak *yoŋ id.; Miju juŋ, Mikir o, oŋ 'many'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 已

Modern (Beijing) reading: yǐ

Preclassic Old Chinese: lǝʔ

Classic Old Chinese: lǝ́

Western Han Chinese: lǝ́

Eastern Han Chinese: źǝ́

Early Postclassic Chinese: źɨ́

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jɨ́

Late Postclassic Chinese: jɨ́

Middle Chinese: jɨ́

English meaning : to cease, end, finish, complete

Russian meaning[s]: 1) остановить, прекратить; прекратиться, кончить; 2) уйти с поста, уйти (уволить) в отставку; дать отставку; 3) прошедший, прошлый; уже; 4) и то уже; уже чересчур; указывает на законченный характер следующего действия или состояния; 5) древн. на конце предложений указывает законченность действия или становление, см. 矣; 6) древн. восклицание о!, увы!; 7) древн. в обстоятельствах времени, места вм. 以

Comments: Used also for a homonymous interjection *lǝʔ 'oh'; sometimes used as a loan for 以 *lǝʔ.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 49

Four-angle index: 7080

Shijing occurrences: 27.1_, 40.1, 40.2, 40.3

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *jV-n

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: big, large

Limbu: yǝmmaʔ, -yǝnd-/-yǝn-

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: yǝmmaʔ, -yǝnd-/-yǝn-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vi.

Meaning: be large

Comments: cukʔi: yǝnʔi:ʔ Is it small or bigʔ

Burushaski etymology :

Common Burushaski: *jṓn

Sino-Caucasian Etymology: Sino-Caucasian Etymology

Meaning: all

Yasin: ̣

Hunza: -jṓn

Nagar: -jṓn

Basque etymology :

Proto-Basque: *hain, *honi

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: 1 so, so much 2 many, much 3 complete, complete number

Bizkaian: ain 1

Gipuzkoan: ain 1, anitz 2

High Navarrese: ain 1, (Esteribar) anitz 2

Low Navarrese: hain 1, hanitz 2, honi 3

Salazarese: anitz 2

Lapurdian: hain 1, anhitz 2

Aezkoan: anitz 2

Zuberoan: hain, han 1, hanitx 2

Roncalese: ain 1, anitx 2

Comments: H. Berger (1956) compared Bsq honi with Bur. *jṓn.