Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[d]ā (-t)

Meaning: thick, solid

Chinese: 太 *thāts, 大 *dhāts great, greatly; thick.

Tibetan: tha hard, solid, ãthas id.

Burmese: Naxi (n)dɨ big

Kachin: that² thick, (H) lǝthat coarse, rough.

Lushai: čhaʔ thick (as wood).

Lepcha: tăŋ be thick as anything (cloth,paper etc.); to be plump

Kiranti: *thèn (/*ʔt-)

Comments: Mikir arthat fat, thick; Meithei ǝtha-ba thick. Ben. 102. Cf. also: Taraon dɨ rɨŋ, Aka *dV, Pumi *da 'big' (some forms are difficult to distinguish from the reflexes of *tajH q.v. A form with a nasal suffix, beside Lepcha and Kiranti, is also present in Karen *d̄VN.4L 'big'.

Chinese characters :

Character: 太

Modern (Beijing) reading: tài

Preclassic Old Chinese: thāts

Classic Old Chinese: thāć

Western Han Chinese: thāś

Eastern Han Chinese: thāś

Early Postclassic Chinese: thāś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: thā̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: thā̀j

Middle Chinese: thầj

English meaning : be too great, very great, grand; excessive; = 大 q.v.

Russian meaning[s]: 1) слишком, чрезмерно, чересчур; 2) великий; больший; почтенный, уважаемый; 3) астр. Юпитер; 4) Тай (фамилия)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 37

Four-angle index: 4943

Karlgren code: 0317 d-e

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 82

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 太

MC description : 蟹開一去泰透

ZIHUI: 1132 1057

Beijing: thai 3

Jinan: thɛ 3

Xi'an: thɛ 3

Taiyuan: thai 3

Hankou: thai 3

Chengdu: thai 3

Yangzhou: thɛ 3

Suzhou: the_ 31 (lit.); tha_ 31

Wenzhou: tha 31

Changsha: thai 31

Shuangfeng: tha 31

Nanchang: thai 32

Meixian: thai 3

Guangzhou: thāi 31

Xiamen: thai 31

Chaozhou: thai 31

Fuzhou: thai 31

Shanghai: tha 1; thôʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: thai 3

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Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *thèn (/*ʔt-)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: thick

Sunwar: thãj-śo

Tulung: ḍēpa

Kaling: tejpä