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Dargwa etymology :

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Proto-Dargwa: *durχIʷa
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: child
Akusha: durħaI
Chiragh: darχIa
Comments: Cf. also Ur. durħʷaI, Kub. dūħu.
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North Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-North Caucasian: *dwirχE
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: child, son
Proto-Dargwa: *durχIʷa
Proto-Lezghian: *t:ʷi(r)χ
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. The form *dwirχE, reflected in PD and PL, probably goes back to an earlier *u_V-dirχE (with the 1st class prefix *uV-); cf. PHU *wutqi, *witēqi 'son' reflected in Hurr. futqi, fitēqi (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 20).
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Lezghian etymology :

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Proto-Lezghian: *t:ʷi(r)χ
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: son
Rutul: duχ
Tsakhur: duχ / diχ
Kryz: diχ
Budukh: diχ
Comment: Medial -r- is regularly lost before uvulars in all languages preserving this root, thus it could have been there in PL (its presence is suggested by the Darg. parallel).
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *dwi(r)χE
Meaning: son, child
North Caucasian: *dwirχE
Sino-Tibetan: *t(h)u
Comments and references : In PST cf. also *toj ( ~ dh-,-u-) `youngest child' (a variant of the same root?)
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *t(h)u (~-iw)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: nephew
Chinese: *tewʔ-s junior, young (?)
Burmese: tu nephew, son of a man's sister, LB *tu.
Lushai: tu grandchild, KC *tu.
Lepcha: thă a grand-child
Comments: Rawang phǝdu nephew; Trung 3-du1; Rgyarung temdu. Sh. 48; Ben. 62. Cf. perhaps also OC 叔 *tikʷ ( < *tiw-k?) or *tu-k third to second-to-last of brothers, junior.
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Chinese characters :

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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: shú
Preclassic Old Chinese: tikʷ (~ -uk)
Classic Old Chinese: tiuk (~ -uk)
Western Han Chinese: tjǝuk (~ -ǝuk)
Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝuk (~ -ǝuk)
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćɨuk (~ -ɨuk)
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćuk
Late Postclassic Chinese: śuk
Middle Chinese: śük
English meaning : third to second-to-last of brothers, junior
Russian meaning[s]: 1) дядя (младший брат отца); свояк (младший брат мужа); 2) третий из четырех братьев; 3) молодой; младший; последний; 4) Шу (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *tikʷ (~*tuk) 'gather; harvest'. For *t- cf. Min forms: Xiamen cik7, Chaozhou cek7.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 29
Four-angle index: 5943
Karlgren code: 1031 b-d
Vietnamese reading: thúc
Shijing occurrences: 37.1, 37.3, 37.4
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 505
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 通合三入屋書
ZIHUI: 0647 0889
Beijing: ṣu 11
Jinan: ṣu 11
Xi'an: fu 12
Taiyuan: suǝʔ 41
Hankou: sou 12
Chengdu: su 12
Yangzhou: sɔʔ 4
Suzhou: soʔ 41
Wenzhou: śiu 41
Changsha: ṣôu 4
Shuangfeng: śiu 12
Nanchang: suk 41
Meixian: suk 41
Guangzhou: šuk 41
Xiamen: siɔk 41
Chaozhou: cek 41
Fuzhou: söyʔ 41
Shanghai: soʔ 4
Zhongyuan yinyun: šiu 42
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