Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 蚊

Modern (Beijing) reading: wén

Preclassic Old Chinese: mhǝn

Classic Old Chinese: mhǝn

Western Han Chinese: mhǝn

Eastern Han Chinese: mhwǝn

Early Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨn

Late Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨn

Middle Chinese: mün

English meaning : mosquito [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: комар, москит

Comments: For *mh- cf. Chaozhou buŋ¹; Shaowu mǝn⁷.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 142

Four-angle index: 6401

Karlgren code: 0475 k-l

Jianchuan Bai: mo6-

Dali Bai: mɨ6-

Bijiang Bai: mo6-

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mVn

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: a k. of insect

Chinese: 蚊 *mhǝn mosquito.

Lepcha: tŭk-men, tŭŋ-men the white ant when they have obtained their wings, the flying white ant, spec. Termes

Kiranti: *mùn-ti

Proto-Kiranti: *mùnti

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: ant (flying)

Sunwar: mimti

Tulung: mundi white ant

Kaling: mündi a large flying ant

Yamphu: minǯuwa 'fly' (?)

Entry: minjuwa

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: fly.

Nepali: jhĩgo

Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *mVnV

Meaning: a k. of insect

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Sino-Tibetan: *mVn

Burushaski: *men

Comments and references : Cf. also PST *mēŋ.

Common Burushaski: *men

Sino-Caucasian Etymology: Sino-Caucasian Etymology

Meaning: a k. of insect like a wasp or hornet

Yasin: men

Borean (approx.) : MVNV

Meaning : a k. of insect

Eurasiatic : cf. "Alt. "*m[a]ŋi

Afroasiatic : *min(n)-

Sino-Caucasian : *mVnV

Reference : Suggested by V. Glumov.

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *min(n)-

Meaning: insect; worm

Semitic: *mVn(Vn)- 'kind of insect'

Berber: *-minaw- 'louse's eggs' 1, 'k. of fly' 2

Low East Cushitic: *minn- 'tapeworm'

High East Cushitic: *minn- 'tapeworm'

South Cushitic: *menan- 'tapeworm'

Mogogodo (Yaaku): ámáten 'locusts' (met.?)

Notes: Cf. HSED 1771 *min- 'worm': Akk.; Twl; Cush

Number: 2404

Proto-Semitic: *mVn(Vn)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: kind of insect

Akkadian: mūnu 'caterpillar' SB, NA [CAD m2 207], [AHw. 673]. Widely attested in lexical lists. Literary passages describe m. as an agricultural pest (e.g., Wiseman Treaties 599: kalmutu mūnu ākilu ālānīkunu mātkunu nagīkunu lušākilū 'let the louse, the caterpillar and the "devorer" eat your cities, your country and your region').

Syrian Aramaic: mǝnīnā 'curculio; cynips, musca' [Brock. 394], [PS 2165].

Arabic: minanat-, manūnat- 'aragnée' [BK 2 1155], [Fr. IV 212], [LA 13 419].

Geʕez (Ethiopian): tomni 'bedbug' [LGz. 576]. Not quite reliable since t-prefixaiton in animal names is not common in Semitic (but cf. Introduction ... ).

Notes: The following forms may be related to the present root with more or less probability: - Anc. mn in the difficult passage KAI 222A 30 discussed in No. ... (the translation 'caterpillar' is adopted in [HJ 647] and discussed in detail in [Tawil 60] while a striking similari- ty between mn ʔkl in the Arm. text and Akk. mūnu ākilu is likely stressed); - Ugr. mnm in 1.2 IV 3 (discussed in No. ...). Since the pa- leographic evidence for the last two signs is meager (cf. [Trop- per UG 244]), this equation is highly hypothetic; - Amh. ammuññǝt 'earthworm (which is active in the rainy seasons' [K 289] (also 'turtle'). - Syr. ʔāmōnā 'lacerta' [Brock. 25] (not very reliable se- mantically); note that according to [Zimmern 52] the Syr. word is borrowed from Akk. mūnu which is unlikely both semantically and phonetically.

Proto-Berber: *-minaw-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'louse's eggs' 1, 'k. of fly' 2

Ayr: i-mniw-ăn pl. 1

Tawllemmet: i-mniw-ăn pl. 1

Izdeg: Ayyashe ta-mna, Myill ti-mna 'mouche sacophage' Taifi 422 2

Notes: Aloj 129

Proto-Low East Cushitic: *minn-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'tapeworm'

Oromo (Galla): minni

Arbore: miinne

Proto-High East Cushitic: *minn-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'tapeworm'

Darasa (Gedeo): minne

Proto-South Cushitic: *menan-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'tapeworm'

Asa-Aramanic: menana

Mogogodo: ámáten

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'locusts'

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