奶

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
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Similar words in the area include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. It may be comparable with 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬,.

It is unknown how the Min forms relate to forms in other dialects. See this article for a discussion of the Min Nan etymon. For similar nasalisations in Min, compare.

Colloquial words in different Min dialects show considerable variation – most have an n- initial, but finals and tones differ greatly. Some propose that this is substrate influence, passed on from the maternal Baiyue lineages since the intermarriages between southward-migrating Han Chinese and native non-Han women. Other southern dialects also show remnants of this native word: 🇨🇬 [Meixian] nɛn5, 🇨🇬 [Guangzhou] nin1. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The long-recognised Sino-Tibetan etymon in Chinese is ; see there for more.

Definitions

 * 1) breast
 * 2) milk; breast milk
 * 3) to nurse
 * 4) to breastfeed; to suckle
 * 5)  infant; infantile; milk
 * 6)  mother
 * 7)  grandmother
 * 1) to breastfeed; to suckle
 * 2)  infant; infantile; milk
 * 3)  mother
 * 4)  grandmother
 * 1)  mother
 * 2)  grandmother

Synonyms






Definitions

 * 1)  to behave in a coy, childish or coquettish manner; to coax; to wheedle