Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 163

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 奶

MC description : 蟹開二上蟹泥

ZIHUI: 1168 1061

Beijing: nai 2

Jinan: nɛ 2

Xi'an: nɛ 2

Taiyuan: nai 2

Hankou: nai 2

Chengdu: nai 2

Yangzhou: nɛ 2

Suzhou: ne_ 32 (lit.); na_ 32

Wenzhou: na 22; na 11

Changsha: nai 2

Shuangfeng: na 2

Nanchang: lai 2

Meixian: nai 11

Guangzhou: nāi 22

Xiamen: nĩ 11; lîŋ 11

Chaozhou: nai 21

Fuzhou: nɛ 2; nein 12

Shanghai: na 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: nai 2

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Chinese characters :

Character: 奶

Modern (Beijing) reading: nǎi

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhrējʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nhrḗ

Western Han Chinese: ṇhḗ

Eastern Han Chinese: ṇhiḗ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṇhiẹ̄́j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṇhiẹ̄́j

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṇhiẹ̄́j

Middle Chinese: ṇạ̈́

English meaning : breast, breast milk [post-Tang]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) молоко; груди; сосцы, вымя; кормить грудью; 2) сокр. госпожа, мать

Comments: Also written as 嬭 q.v.; also read *nhējʔ, MC níej id. For *nh cf. Xiamen liŋ¹, ni¹, Longdu nāj¹(*nhēj), Chaozhou ni⁴.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 4614

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nej

Meaning: breast

Chinese: 奶 *nhrējʔ, *nhējʔ

Lushai: hne to suck the breasts.

Lepcha: njen milk, breast

Comments: PG *ńe^L milk, breasts. STEDT 202-205 *[n/ŋ]ye-n (with an addition of various forms from Tani, Naga, Tamang, Thakali, LB and Karen).