妹
/meɪ̯⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•younger sister · girl; young female · daughter
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯːds): semantic 女 (“female, woman”) + phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds). Probably Sino-Tibetan. Proposed etymologies: * STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mi (“girl; female; feminine suffix”), whence Apatani nyimii (“girl; woman; female”), Proto-Loloish *C-mi² (“woman”), Proto-Karen *hmɨᴮ (“female; woman”). * Schuessler (2007) compares it to Burmese မ (ma.,…