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Character: 買
Modern (Beijing) reading: mǎi
Preclassic Old Chinese: mrēʔ
Classic Old Chinese: mrḗ
Western Han Chinese: mrḗ
Eastern Han Chinese: mriḗ
Early Postclassic Chinese: miẹ̄́
Middle Postclassic Chinese: miẹ̄́
Late Postclassic Chinese: miẹ̄́
Middle Chinese: mạ̈́
English meaning : to buy [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: купить, приобрести
Comments: For *m cf. Xiamen mai3, Chaozhou boi3, Fuzhou mä3, Jianou mai3.
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 7968
Vietnamese reading: mãi
Jianchuan Bai: mɛ2
Dali Bai: mer3
Bijiang Bai: ma1
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrē(H)
Meaning: buy, debt
Burmese: mri debt.
Kachin: mǝri1 to buy ( < Burm.?).
Comments: BG: Garo bre, Dimasa baroi, Bodo bay to buy; Moshang, Namsangia ri; Miri re. Sh. 204, 433; Ben. 65.
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,stibet-comments,
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Number: 1532
Character: 買
MC description : 蟹開二上蟹明
ZIHUI: 6314 1038
Beijing: mai 2
Jinan: mɛ 2
Xi'an: mɛ 2
Taiyuan: mai 2
Hankou: mai 2
Chengdu: mai 2
Yangzhou: mɛ 2
Suzhou: ma_ 32
Wenzhou: ma 22
Changsha: mai 2
Shuangfeng: ma 2
Nanchang: ma 2
Meixian: mai 11
Guangzhou: māi 22
Xiamen: bue 2; maĩ 2
Chaozhou: boi 21
Fuzhou: mɛ 2
Shanghai: ma 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: mai 2
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *Hi(r)xmVrV́
Meaning: change, exchange
Comments and references : -
sccet-meaning,sccet-stib,sccet-basq,sccet-notes,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *=HirfVr
Meaning: to change
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-aand,caucet-lak,caucet-lezg,caucet-comment,
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *=irux-
Meaning: to change
Andian language: =erš-
Akhvakh: išu-č̣-
Chamalal: =ehʷ-
Tindi: =eruhĩ-
Karata: =erxʷ- (Tok.)
Comments: Cf. also Cham. Gig. =eh- (pointing unambiguously to PA *-x-). Akhvakh has an obscure suffix -č̣- (probably reflecting some old compound).
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: =aχ:a-na =an
Meaning: to change
Lak form: =aχ:a-na =an
Comments: A compound verb with =aχ:ana-(s:a), Khosr. =aχ:ʷa-na-s:a 'special, different'. The adjective itself is in fact a participle: the original verb is preserved in Lak. with the meaning 'to sell' (*'to change'): =aχ:a-n (p. pr. =a=χ:u-nu).
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *ʡirχ:Iär-
Meaning: to change
Tabasaran: huǯ-uχI-
Agul: d-aX̀u-b aq̇as
Rutul: k-ɨrχIɨ haʔas
Budukh: čorħ-/čere=ħir-
Archi: χ:Ioro=χ:Ii-
Comment: Cf. also Tab. Düb. hūχI-, Ag. Bursh. ad-iX̀a-. The Archi form is a compound of *o=χIi- 'to change' with the first part χ:Ioro- (cf. χ:Ioro-t:u= 'strange, different', χ:Ioro kes 'to change') - which itself is derived from the same verbal root: χ:Ioro- reflects the stem *ʡirχ:Iär- (with regular reduction of the first narrow vowel), while o=χ:Ii- reflects an Ablaut grade *ʡorχ:Iär- (cf. the same Ablaut grade in Rut. -ɨrχIɨ). The Bud. form contains a preverb č-.
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Basque etymology :
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Proto-Basque: *bahi
Meaning: 1 pawn, pledge 2 to pawn, pledge (something)
Bizkaian: bai 1, bai-tu 2
Gipuzkoan: bai 1, bai-tu 2
High Navarrese: bai 1, bai-tu 2
Low Navarrese: bahi 1
Lapurdian: bahi 1
Zuberoan: bahi 1, bahi-tü 2
Comments: For phonology, cf. *bahe 'sieve' = PNC *(w)=if_V > Tsakh. wex:ʷa 'sieve'.
basqet-prnum,basqet-meaning,basqet-bzk,basqet-gip,basqet-anv,basqet-bnv,basqet-lab,basqet-zbr,basqet-comments,
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