垃垃

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Chinese

to be at pronoun pluralizer; of (one's) home, place, family or collective
simp. and trad.
(垃垃)
alternative forms

Etymology

First syllable from a lenited form of (MC dzojX|dzojH) (Qian, 1997) which later experienced glottalization and potential assimilation with , mainly in circa 19th century Shanghai (Qian, 2003).

The second syllable is likely cognate with the personal pronoun pluralizer in e.g. Shanghainese , which may in itself be a lenited non-checked tone variant of according to (Qian, 2003) and (Sheng, 2013). Compare 在𡍲.

Alternatively this might be a reduplicated form of .

The aspect marker senses are part of a commonplace semantic derivation in Wu and some of Gan, whereby preposition-demonstrative phrases come to be grammaticalized as stative verb markers (Qian, 1997).

Pronunciation


Note: 8laq-la6 — Potentially regarded as conservative suburban-influenced..

Verb

垃垃

  1. (Northern Wu, including Shanghainese) to be at; to be in

Preposition

垃垃

  1. (Northern Wu, including Shanghainese) at; in

Synonyms

Adverb

垃垃

  1. (Northern Wu) be ...-ing; in the middle of doing something (indicating an action in progress)
  2. (Northern Wu) Used to indicate the perfective aspect.

Synonyms