Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nă-

Meaning: thou, you

Chinese: 汝 *nhaʔ you, 爾 *nhejʔ you, 乃*nhǝ̄ʔ your.

Burmese: naŋ thou, LB *nhaŋ (cf. also nań thou (addressing a female)).

Kachin: naŋ¹ thou.

Lushai: naŋ you, thou, KC *naŋ you.

Kiranti: *ʔìnä / *gìnä

Comments: BG: Garo naŋ-, Dimasa niŋ, Bodo nǝ́ŋ; Rawang na, Trung na²; Namsangia naŋ-ma; Moshang m-naŋ; Dhimal na; Chepang, Magari naŋ. Sh. 38, 118, 410, 430; Ben. 93.

Chinese characters :

Character: 爾

Modern (Beijing) reading: ěr

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhejʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nhé

Western Han Chinese: nhé

Eastern Han Chinese: ńhé

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńhé

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńhé

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńhé

Middle Chinese: ńé

English meaning : you, your

Russian meaning[s]: 1) ты; твой; 2) в конце фразы в вэньяне вот и все!, и только!; 3) суффикс наречий, вариант 然; 4) такой, таков; так; 5) близкий к...

Shuowen gloss: 麗爾,猶靡麗也.從**#.#,其孔.從ぱ聲此與爽同意. [128]

Comments: One of the 2d person pronouns beginning in *nh- (cf. also 乃 *nhǝ̄ʔ, 汝 *nhaʔ). For *nh- cf. Jianou ni⁸ (a colloquial form corresponding to MC 你 ṇɨ́, a late dialectal variant of 爾). The original meaning of the character, according to Shuowen, is 'good-looking', 'bright-looking' - attested only within the rather late compound 麗爾 (MC lìej-ńé) id.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 89

Four-angle index: 3941

Karlgren code: 0359 a-b

Jianchuan Bai: no3

Dali Bai: no3

Bijiang Bai: na4

Shijing occurrences: 5.1, 33.4, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.5, 35.6, 54.4, 58.2, 58.4

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Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *(ʔì)nä // *gìnä

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: thou

Sunwar: ge,goj

Tulung: na, gana

Kaling: in

Limbu: hene, khene

Dumi: an

Kulung: ana

Yamphu: häŋ, erg. hänäʔ

Comments: *nä only in Т. Toba 97 *ganu.

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