Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 683

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 俄

MC description : 果開一平歌疑

ZIHUI: 0192 0211

Beijing: ô 12

Jinan: ŋǝ 12

Xi'an: ŋô 12

Taiyuan: ŋǝ 1

Hankou: ŋo 12

Chengdu: o 12

Yangzhou: o 12

Suzhou: ŋǝu 12

Wenzhou: ŋ 12

Changsha: o 12

Shuangfeng: ɣo 12

Nanchang: ŋo 31

Meixian: ŋɔ 12

Guangzhou: ŋɔ 12

Xiamen: go 12

Chaozhou: ŋo 12

Fuzhou: ŋɔ 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 俄

Modern (Beijing) reading: é

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋāj

Classic Old Chinese: ŋāj

Western Han Chinese: ŋāj

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋǟ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋā

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋā

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋā

Middle Chinese: ŋâ

English meaning : be slanting

Russian meaning[s]: 1) вдруг, внезапно, неожиданно; в один момент; 2) сокр. Россия; русский

Comments: A later meaning is 'suddenly, unexpectedly'. In Viet. cf. also nga` 'to lean, incline'. For *ŋ- cf. Min forms: Xiamen go², Chaozhou ŋo², Fuzhou ŋɔ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 6770

Karlgren code: 0002 h

Vietnamese reading: nga

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋā[j]

Meaning: slant, lean

Chinese: 俄 *ŋāj slanting.

Burmese: ŋajʔ to lean, be inclined to one side, hŋajʔ to incline, set on one side.

Kachin: ŋaʔ² to slant, to lean, (H) kǝŋa to bend (as head).

Lushai: ŋer be canted, tilted, leaning.