"tui" meaning in Mizo

See tui in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee). Etymology templates: {{etymid|lus|water}}, {{inh|lus|tbq-kuk-pro|*tuy}} Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, {{inh|lus|sit-pro|*s-turʔ|t=water}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”), {{cog|ksw|ထံ}} S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee) Head templates: {{head|lus|noun}} tui
  1. water
    Sense id: en-tui-lus-noun-D0FoSQ44
  2. any liquid
    Sense id: en-tui-lus-noun-Ln5w5VQ3 Categories (other): Mizo entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Mizo entries with incorrect language header: 6 70 18 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tu(u)y (“egg”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tur (“egg”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|lus|egg}}, {{inh|lus|tbq-kuk-pro|*tu(u)y|t=egg}} Proto-Kuki-Chin *tu(u)y (“egg”), {{inh|lus|sit-pro|*tur|t=egg}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tur (“egg”) Head templates: {{head|lus|noun}} tui
  1. egg Derived forms: artui
    Sense id: en-tui-lus-noun-NHB8P0Df
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Etymology: From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee). Etymology templates: {{etymid|lus|water}}, {{inh|lus|tbq-kuk-pro|*tuy}} Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, {{inh|lus|sit-pro|*s-turʔ|t=water}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”), {{cog|ksw|ထံ}} S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee) Head templates: {{head|lus|verb||}} tui, {{lus-verb}} tui
  1. to flow
    Sense id: en-tui-lus-verb-U7EY147G
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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    [
      "*tuy",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/tuy"
    ],
    [
      "*s-turʔ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-turʔ"
    ],
    [
      "ထံ",
      "ထံ#S'gaw_Karen"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "tbq-kuk-pro",
        "3": "*tuy"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*s-turʔ",
        "t": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "ထံ"
      },
      "expansion": "S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mizo",
  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "water"
      ],
      "id": "en-tui-lus-noun-D0FoSQ44",
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 70 18 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mizo entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any liquid"
      ],
      "id": "en-tui-lus-noun-Ln5w5VQ3",
      "links": [
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}

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    [
      "*tuy",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/tuy"
    ],
    [
      "*s-turʔ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-turʔ"
    ],
    [
      "ထံ",
      "ထံ#S'gaw_Karen"
    ]
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    },
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "lus-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mizo",
  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to flow"
      ],
      "id": "en-tui-lus-verb-U7EY147G",
      "links": [
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}

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    [
      "*tu(u)y",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/tu(u)y"
    ],
    [
      "*tur",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tur"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "egg"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "tbq-kuk-pro",
        "3": "*tu(u)y",
        "t": "egg"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Kuki-Chin *tu(u)y (“egg”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*tur",
        "t": "egg"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tur (“egg”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tu(u)y (“egg”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tur (“egg”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mizo",
  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "artui"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "egg"
      ],
      "id": "en-tui-lus-noun-NHB8P0Df",
      "links": [
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}
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    "Mizo nouns",
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    "Mizo terms inherited from Proto-Kuki-Chin",
    "Mizo terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
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    "Pages with 23 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "zom:Birds",
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      "*tuy",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/tuy"
    ],
    [
      "*s-turʔ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-turʔ"
    ],
    [
      "ထံ",
      "ထံ#S'gaw_Karen"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "tbq-kuk-pro",
        "3": "*tuy"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*s-turʔ",
        "t": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "ထံ"
      },
      "expansion": "S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "head"
    }
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  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "water"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "any liquid"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "liquid",
          "liquid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}

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    "Mizo terms inherited from Proto-Kuki-Chin",
    "Mizo terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
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    ],
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      "*s-turʔ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-turʔ"
    ],
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      "ထံ",
      "ထံ#S'gaw_Karen"
    ]
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  "etymology_number": "1",
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        "1": "lus",
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      },
      "expansion": "",
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      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "tbq-kuk-pro",
        "3": "*tuy"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*s-turʔ",
        "t": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "ထံ"
      },
      "expansion": "S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tui",
      "name": "lus-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Mizo",
  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to flow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}

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    "Mizo nouns",
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    "zom:Birds",
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    }
  ],
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      "*tu(u)y",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/tu(u)y"
    ],
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      "*tur",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tur"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
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      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "egg"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
        "2": "sit-pro",
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        "t": "egg"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tu(u)y (“egg”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tur (“egg”).",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lus",
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      },
      "expansion": "tui",
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  "lang_code": "lus",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "egg"
      ],
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          "egg",
          "egg"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tui"
}

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