ʈɽź̩
Ersu
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In Ersu Shaba pictographic script, this word is written as a circle, and which colour it is painted changes the precise meaning: painted black, it signifies 'dim'; painted white, 'brilliant, shining'.
Alternative forms
- [tʂɿ(˥)], tʂ̩́, [ʈɽr̩]́
Etymology
Compare Lizu tʃə.
Noun
ʈɽź̩
- star
References
- Sihong Zhang, A reference grammar of Ersu: a Tibeto-Burman language of China (2013)
- Katia Chirkova, The Duoxu Language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship (2015)
- The Ersu Shaba Pictographic Writing System, Asian Highlands Perspectives 1 (2009), by Sun Hongkai, translated by Mtsho mo Skyid of Qinghai Normal University and Gerald Roche of Griffith University / Qinghai Normal University), with an introduction by Thomas Roche (University of Sohar) and Gerald Roche.