xuix

Central Bai

Etymology

From Proto-Bai *ɕui² (“water”), from Chinese 水 (shuǐ). Bai has borrowed an exceptionally large amount (almost half) of its basic vocabulary from Chinese.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Jianchuan) IPA(key): [ɕy³³]

Noun

xuix

  1. water

References
  • Grace Claire Wiersma, A Study of the Bai (Minjia) Language Along Historical Lines (1990): shui3
  • Bryan Allen, Zhang Xia Bai Dialect Survey (2004, Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN: /ɕy³³/ 水 (in all dialects of Bai except Luobenzhuo, which has /sy³³/)
  1. Yeon-Ju Lee, Laurent Sagart, "No limits to borrowing: The case of Bai and Chinese", Diachronica (25 (3): 357–385; 2008)
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