Yenisseian etymology : List with all references

Proto-Yenisseian: *pak-si-m

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thin (paper, leaf etc.)

Ket: hakśem⁵

Yug: faksim⁵

Kottish: fačam, phačam

Comments: ССЕ 245. The root is probably *paK- (with double adjectival suffixation). Werner 1, 293 *p^haksǝm.

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *bVHV

Meaning: thin

Sino-Tibetan: *pā

Yenisseian: *pak-si-m

Burushaski: *bié-

Basque: *mehe ( < *behe-n ?)

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pā

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thin

Chinese: 薄 *bāk thin.

Tibetan: ba-spu a little hair (spu), phra thin, fine; minute; phran little, small, trifling.

Burmese: pah, LB *pax thin.

Kachin: pha², čǝpha⁴ thin.

Lushai: pan thin (as paper), weak (as tea), KC *r-pa: Tiddim pā́ thin.

Lepcha: kă-ba a kind of cloth formed of single twist

Comments: Yamphu phäk; Tsangla ba-bo; BG: Dimasa ba-, Garo ba-, Bodo bá be thin; Rawang ba-, Trung ba². Sh. 49, 118; Ben. 19; Mat. 181.

Character: 薄

Modern (Beijing) reading: bó

Preclassic Old Chinese: bāk

Classic Old Chinese: bāk

Western Han Chinese: bāk

Eastern Han Chinese: bāk

Early Postclassic Chinese: bāk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bāk

Late Postclassic Chinese: bāk

Middle Chinese: bâk

English meaning : be thin

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тонкий; жидкий; слабый; 2) ничтожный, недостойный; вежл. мой; 3) незадачливый, несчастный (о судьбе); 4) худосочный, тощий (о земле); 5) пресный, безвкусный; 6) бесчувственный, равнодушный; 7) презрительно; невнимательно; 8) близиться к...; близко к...; 9) покрывать; 10) занавеска; 11) густой (о траве); 12) Бао (фамилия)

Shuowen gloss: 林薄也.一曰蠶薄.從草.溥聲. [41]

Comments: Pek. has a colloquial reading báo and a more standard one: bó. Also means 'to press, press on, suppress' (probably a semantic derivate: 'to make thin'). For initial *b- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou poʔ⁸, Fuzhou pok⁸, Jianou pɔ⁸.

The character is also used for a homonymous word *bāk, which Sch. defines as follows: "meaning much debated; perhaps a -k derivation (distributive) from the stem *ba 夫 'that', hence 'of all places, that one': there".

A usage due to phonetic similarity is witnessed in the reduplication 薄薄 MC phâk-phâk, OC *phāk-phāk 'to go or sound phak-phak'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 3198

Karlgren code: 0771 p

Jianchuan Bai: po2

Dali Bai: po2

Bijiang Bai: po2

Shijing occurrences: 2.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 13.3, 26.2, 35.2

Number: 2300

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 薄

MC description : 宕開一入鐸並

ZIHUI: 5631 1271

Beijing: pau 12; po 12

Jinan: pǝ 12

Xi'an: po 12

Taiyuan: paʔ 41; pǝʔ 41

Hankou: po 12

Chengdu: po 12

Yangzhou: pâʔ 4

Suzhou: boʔ 42

Wenzhou: bo 42

Changsha: po 4

Shuangfeng: phû 31

Nanchang: phɔk 41

Meixian: phɔk 42

Guangzhou: pɔk 42

Xiamen: pɔk 42 (lit.); poʔ 42

Chaozhou: poʔ 42

Fuzhou: pouʔ 42

Shanghai: poʔ 42

Zhongyuan yinyun: pau 41

Common Burushaski: *bié-n-

Sino-Caucasian Etymology: Sino-Caucasian Etymology

Meaning: thin

Yasin: biénum

Hunza: biénum

Nagar: biénum

Proto-Basque: *mehe ( < *behe-n ?)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: thin, slender

Araban: be

Bizkaian: mee, me

Gipuzkoan: me

High Navarrese: mee, me

Low Navarrese: mehe

Salazarese: me

Lapurdian: mehe

Baztanese: mee

Zuberoan: mẽ́hẽ

Roncalese: me

Comments: The assocation between *mehe and *medar̄ (q.v.) is secondary, in this analysis.

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