橐駝

See also: 橐驼

Chinese

Schuessler (2014) reconstructs its pronunciation around 59 BCE as *thâk-lâi > *tʰɑk-dɑi.

Dybo (2014) compares this term to Proto-Turkic *taj-lag (“young camel”).^[1]

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuótuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˊ ㄊㄨㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuótuó
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo²-tʻo²
  - Yale: twó-twó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twotwo
  - Palladius: тото (toto)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ³⁵ tʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tok³ to⁴
  - Yale: tok tòh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tok⁸ to⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tog³ to⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːk̚³ tʰɔː²¹/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tag⁴ toh⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thak tho̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰak̚²⁻⁴ tʰoʔ⁴/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	橐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuó
Middle Chinese	‹ thak ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰˁak/
English	sack; bellows
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

橐駝

^ Dybo, Anna (2014) “Early contacts of Turks and problems of Proto-Turkic reconstruction”, in Tatarica‎^[1], volume 2, page 9