馬留

Chinese

	horse; surname	leave (message); to retain; to stay leave (message); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
trad. (馬留)	馬	留
simp. (马留)	马	留
variant forms	馬流／马流馬騮／马骝 Cantonese “monkey”

A substrate Tai-Kadai loanword, compare Zhuang maxlaeuz (“monkey”). Perhaps cognate with 猱 (OC *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us, “yellow-haired monkey”).

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǎliú

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄚˇ ㄌㄧㄡˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): maa⁵ lau^4-1, maa^5-1 lau^4-1

(Taishan, Wiktionary): ma² leu², ma¹ leu²

馬留

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