[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] The origins of oranges

Dominic Yu dypc at berkeley.edu
Fri Oct 24 16:25:14 UTC 2014


My bet is on 柑子 gānzi 'mandarin orange', borrowed from some variety of Mandarin before the change of coda -m > -n. (The -zi ([tsz̩] in modern Mandarin) is just a diminutive suffix.)


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