See ŋuw on Wiktionary
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"descendants": [
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Himalayish"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Bodic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibetan"
},
{
"depth": 5,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bo",
"2": "ངུ་བ",
"t": "to cry, weep"
},
"expansion": "Tibetan: ངུ་བ (ngu ba, “to cry, weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Written Tibetan: ངུ་བ (ngu ba, “to cry, weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Kiranti: *ŋok- ~ *ŋak- (“cry”) (Michailovsky, 1991)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tangut-Qiang"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Tangut"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tangut: 𗥸 (*ŋwu², “to cry, sob”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Lolo-Burmese: *ŋəw¹ (“weep”) (Matisoff, 2003)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "my",
"2": "ငို",
"t": "to weep, cry, shed tears"
},
"expansion": "Burmese: ငို (ngui, “to weep, cry, shed tears”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Burmese: ငို (ngui, “to weep, cry, shed tears”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Maruic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bxd",
"2": "ŋau⁵⁵",
"t": "to cry"
},
"expansion": "Pela: ŋau⁵⁵ (“to cry”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Pela: ŋau⁵⁵ (“to cry”), ŋau⁵⁵ pji⁵¹ (“tear”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tbq-lol-pro",
"2": "*ŋo¹",
"t": "cry"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Loloish: *ŋo¹ (“cry”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Proto-Loloish: *ŋo¹ (“cry”) (Bradley, 1979)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Yi (Liangshan): ꉩ (ngo, “to cry”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Central Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Lisu (Southern): ꓥꓴꓻ (ŋu, “to cry”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Naic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Naish:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nxq",
"2": "ngvq",
"t": "to cry, to weep"
},
"expansion": "Naxi: ngvq (“to cry, to weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Naxi: ngvq (“to cry, to weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Nungish:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "raw",
"2": "ngø",
"t": "to cry, to weep"
},
"expansion": "Rawang: ngø (“to cry, to weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Rawang: ngø (“to cry, to weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Trung/Drung/Dulong: ngeu (“to cry”)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nguɣw (Coblin, 1986)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ŋəw (Matisoff, STEDT), *ŋuw (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991), *nguw (*A) (Coblin, 1986)",
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"lang_code": "sit-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ŋuw",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
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},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
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"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
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"source": "w"
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],
"glosses": [
"to cry, weep"
],
"id": "en-ŋuw-sit-pro-verb-jLnMg7cr",
"links": [
[
"cry",
"cry"
],
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"weep",
"weep"
]
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"related": [
{
"english": "to weep",
"word": "krap"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "s-r(j)a-j"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "s"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "t"
},
{
"english": "cattle",
"word": "ŋwa"
},
{
"english": "to fry, roast",
"word": "r-ŋaw"
}
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "ŋuw"
}
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"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Himalayish"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Bodic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibetan"
},
{
"depth": 5,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bo",
"2": "ངུ་བ",
"t": "to cry, weep"
},
"expansion": "Tibetan: ངུ་བ (ngu ba, “to cry, weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Written Tibetan: ངུ་བ (ngu ba, “to cry, weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Kiranti: *ŋok- ~ *ŋak- (“cry”) (Michailovsky, 1991)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tangut-Qiang"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Tangut"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tangut: 𗥸 (*ŋwu², “to cry, sob”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Lolo-Burmese: *ŋəw¹ (“weep”) (Matisoff, 2003)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "my",
"2": "ငို",
"t": "to weep, cry, shed tears"
},
"expansion": "Burmese: ငို (ngui, “to weep, cry, shed tears”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Burmese: ငို (ngui, “to weep, cry, shed tears”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Maruic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "bxd",
"2": "ŋau⁵⁵",
"t": "to cry"
},
"expansion": "Pela: ŋau⁵⁵ (“to cry”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Pela: ŋau⁵⁵ (“to cry”), ŋau⁵⁵ pji⁵¹ (“tear”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tbq-lol-pro",
"2": "*ŋo¹",
"t": "cry"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Loloish: *ŋo¹ (“cry”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Proto-Loloish: *ŋo¹ (“cry”) (Bradley, 1979)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Yi (Liangshan): ꉩ (ngo, “to cry”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Central Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Lisu (Southern): ꓥꓴꓻ (ŋu, “to cry”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Naic:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Naish:"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nxq",
"2": "ngvq",
"t": "to cry, to weep"
},
"expansion": "Naxi: ngvq (“to cry, to weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Naxi: ngvq (“to cry, to weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Nungish:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "raw",
"2": "ngø",
"t": "to cry, to weep"
},
"expansion": "Rawang: ngø (“to cry, to weep”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Rawang: ngø (“to cry, to weep”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Trung/Drung/Dulong: ngeu (“to cry”)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nguɣw (Coblin, 1986)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ŋəw (Matisoff, STEDT), *ŋuw (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991), *nguw (*A) (Coblin, 1986)",
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"2": "verb",
"cat2": "roots"
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"expansion": "*ŋuw",
"name": "head"
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],
"lang": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
"lang_code": "sit-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ŋuw",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"english": "to weep",
"word": "krap"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "s-r(j)a-j"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "s"
},
{
"english": "to laugh",
"word": "t"
},
{
"english": "cattle",
"word": "ŋwa"
},
{
"english": "to fry, roast",
"word": "r-ŋaw"
}
],
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"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Sino-Tibetan lemmas",
"Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots",
"Proto-Sino-Tibetan verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to cry, weep"
],
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[
"cry",
"cry"
],
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"weep",
"weep"
]
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"tags": [
"reconstruction"
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}
],
"word": "ŋuw"
}
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