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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *kăuV̄
Meaning: gate, fence
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *kawV Proto-West Caucasian: *kawǝ Notes: The PNC antiquity of this root is rather dubious. It is nearly identical in all languages (and the probability of interlingual borrowing is rather high), refers to a cultural phenomenon, and is widely represented outside the North Caucasian languages: cf. Georg. (dial.) kawi 'fence, fortress' (probably an Adygh loanword), Osset. kaw / kawä 'fence', Hung. káva id., Mord. kav 'closet, cage', Veps. kavi 'stake', Russ. (Novgor., Olon.) кава, каба id. See Шагиpов 1977, Abdokov 1983, 127, Aбаев 1949, 1958, Фасмеp 1967. Rogava (1956) and Kumakhov (1964) may be right in treating PAK *káwǝ as a derivate from *kǝ 'twig, rod'. In this case the Adygh form is a probable source of all the above forms, and the form *kău_V̄ should be considered non-existent.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-nakh,caucet-aand,caucet-abad,caucet-comment,
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *kaw
Meaning: gate
Chechen: kow
Ingush: kow
Comments: Obl. base *kawi-na- (cf. Chech. kewna-). 3d class in both languages.
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-comment,
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *kaʔu
Meaning: gate
Avar: kawú
Chadakolob: kawú
Andian language: kawu
Akhvakh: kō
Chamalal: kaw
Karata: kaw
Godoberi: ḱawu
Comments: Av. paradigm B (gen. Chad. kawú-l / kawú-dul, pl. /Uslar/ kawá-bi). All Andian forms can be, in fact, more or less recent loanwords from Avar; a certain loanword is Tind. kawu (with k- instead of regular ḱ-). Also borrowed from Av. are Tsezian forms: Tsez., Gin., Inkh., Gunz. kawu, Bezht. kaw 'gate'.
aandet-prnum,aandet-meaning,aandet-ava,aandet-avc,aandet-and,aandet-akv,aandet-chm,aandet-krt,aandet-gdb,aandet-comment,
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *kawǝ
Meaning: fence
Adyghe: č́aw
Kabardian: čaw, čow
Comments: PAK *káwǝ. In Ad. the word also means 'farmstead'; in Kab. it is now rather archaic and means also 'small fortress'.
abadet-prnum,abadet-meaning,abadet-adg,abadet-kab,abadet-comment,
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *kău̯V
Meaning: fence
sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kǝ̄wH (~ g-)
Meaning: fence, obstacle
Tibetan: kho-ra, go-ra circumference, fence, surrounding wall.
Burmese: khuʔ to block.
Kachin: buŋkhu3 a stockade, fence.
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,
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Chinese characters :
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Character: 笱
Modern (Beijing) reading: gǒu
Preclassic Old Chinese: kōʔ
Classic Old Chinese: kṓ
Western Han Chinese: kwā́
Eastern Han Chinese: kwā́
Early Postclassic Chinese: kṓw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kǝ̄̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: kǝ̄̀w
Middle Chinese: kʌ́w
English meaning : fishtrap
Russian meaning[s]: верша
Radical: 118
Four-angle index: 4326
Karlgren code: 0108 e
Shijing occurrences: 35.3_
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,bigchina-shijing,
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