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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 : dog [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) собака; по-собачьи; 2) бран. собачий, сучий; 3) подхалимствовать, пресмыкаться
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 94
Four-angle index: 4319
Karlgren code: 0108 d
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qōH (?)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to bark, dog
Chinese: 狗 *kōʔ dog
Kiranti: *hu / *huk(s)
Comments: Cf. also Kham kāh 'dog' (?).
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *hu / *huk(s)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: bark
Sunwar: hōk-ca
Tulung: huk-
Kaling: 'hunä ('huŋɔ)
Limbu: homā (horā) to bark, ho (n.) the bark of a dog, hukmā (hukkhu) to roar
Dumi: hūknɨ
Kulung: hūma
Yamphu: huʔwa 'dog'
Comments: Toba *'huk-.
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Limbu dictionary :

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Entry: hɔ:maʔ, -hɔ:s-/-hɔ:-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: bark
Comments: maktaNba sa:rik hɔ:sɛ Blacky barked terribly.
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Dumi dictionary :

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Entry: hu:knɨ
Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology
Grammar: vi-1 hu:kh/hu:k
Meaning: bark
Nepali: bhuknu.
Comments: Khi:bɨmɨl hamhu:kha The dogs barked
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Kulung dictionary :

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Entry: hu:ma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi-3 [1: huk- 2: hu:-]
Meaning: bark (of a dog)
Nepali: bhuknu.
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: huʔwa
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: n.
Meaning: dog.
Nepali: kukur
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 632
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 流開一上厚見
ZIHUI: 3699 1555
Beijing: kou 2
Jinan: kou 2
Xi'an: kou 2
Taiyuan: kou 2
Hankou: kou 2
Chengdu: kǝu 2
Yangzhou: kôɨ 2
Suzhou: köy 2
Wenzhou: kau 21
Changsha: kôu 2
Shuangfeng: kie 2
Nanchang: kiɛu 2
Meixian: kɛu 2
Guangzhou: kau 21
Xiamen: kɔ 2
Chaozhou: kau 21
Fuzhou: keu 2
Shanghai: kôɨ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: kou 2
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HV́lqwV̄
Meaning: to bark
North Caucasian: *Helq_wĀ
Sino-Tibetan: *qōH
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North Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-North Caucasian: *Helq_wĀ
Meaning: to bark
Proto-Lezghian: *ʔelqʷa
Proto-West Caucasian: *q:Iʷǝ
Notes: An onomatopoeic Lezg.-WC isogloss; the correspondences, however, are regular, and the root may be old (unlike other words for "barking" in Caucasian languages, which are all heterogeneous and certainly recent onomatopoeia).
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Lezghian etymology :

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Proto-Lezghian: *ʔelqʷa
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to bark
Agul: č-irqʷ-
Rutul: =erqʷa-
Comment: In Ag. č- is an expressive preverb.
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :

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Proto-West-Caucasian: *q:Iʷǝ
North Caucasian etymology: North Caucasian etymology
Meaning: 1 to bark 2 to howl
Adyghe: hā-q:ʷǝ-n 1
Kabardian: q:ʷǝ-ʁǝ-n 2
Ubykh: qIʷǝ- 1
Comments: PAK *q:ʷǝ- (in Kab. - a compound with ʁǝ-n 'to weep, cry'); Ub. a-qIʷǝ́-n.
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