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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *χǝ̄wχV
Meaning: onion
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. A similar form exists also in Georgian (χaχwi 'onion') and Ossetian (xaxwɨ, see Abayev 1989, 149), where it is most probably an EC loanword.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-cez,caucet-comment,
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *χōχ
Meaning: onion
Chechen: χoχ
Ingush: χoχ
Comments: Obl. base *χōχa- (Chech. χōχa-).
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-comment,
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Tsezian etymology :
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Proto-Tsezian: *χ:ɔχu A (~ -ʁ-)
Meaning: onion
Ginukh: hohu
Bezhta: χaʁo (Tlad.)
Gunzib: χɔʁu
Comments: PGB *χɔʁu. In Gin. one would expect *χohu, which changed to hohu through assimilation.
cezet-prnum,cezet-meaning,cezet-gin,cezet-bzt,cezet-gnz,cezet-comment,
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *xkɨ̄wχV
Meaning: onion
Comments and references : HGC 29. sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-notes,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kɨ̆wH
Meaning: onion
Tibetan: sko-ce a k. of wild onion.
Kachin: šǝkau1 an onion.
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-kach,
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Character: 韭
Modern (Beijing) reading: jiǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: k(r)uʔ
Classic Old Chinese: k(r)ú
Western Han Chinese: k(r)ǝ́w
Eastern Han Chinese: k(r)ǝ́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: kíw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kǝ́w
Late Postclassic Chinese: kǝ́w
Middle Chinese: kǝ́w
English meaning : Chinese chive (Allium odorum, A. tuberosum)
Russian meaning[s]: лук душистый (Allium odorum)
Radical: 179
Four-angle index: 497
Karlgren code: 1065 a-b
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,bigchina-karlgren,
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