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Nostratic etymology :
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Eurasiatic: *pVKV
Meaning: big, heavy
Comments: [Cf. also: PA *p`i̯àká `mighty, heavy'; ? PIE *pAik-, -g- `ill-meaning, bad']
nostret-meaning,nostret-prnum,nostret-alt,nostret-drav,nostret-notes,
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Altaic etymology :
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Proto-Altaic: *pĕ̀k`i
Meaning: big, solid, firm
Russian meaning: большой, крепкий, прочный
Comments: SKE 62 (Mong.-Tung., incorrectly criticized in TMN 1, 554), 213. Turk. > WMong. beki, bekü > Evk. beki (see Doerfer TMN 1, 238, MT 101). Low tone and shortness reconstructed because of Mong. *h-. Cf. also *p`i̯àka 'mighty' (the two roots could interfere because of similarity). altet-prnum,altet-meaning,altet-rusmean,altet-turc,altet-mong,altet-tung,altet-kor,altet-reference,
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Turkic etymology :
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Proto-Turkic: *bek
Meaning: firm, solid, stable
Russian meaning: крепкий, прочный
Old Turkic: bek (OUygh.)
Turkish: pek
Tatar: bik
Sary-Yughur: poq, pɨq
Turkmen: bek
Khakassian: pik
Shor: pek
Oyrat: bek, pek
Chuvash: pak 'suddenly, abruptly'
Yakut: bige
Dolgan: bige
Tuva: be'k
Kirghiz: bek
Kazakh: bek
Noghai: bek
Bashkir: bik
Balkar: bek
Gagauz: pek
Karaim: bek
Karakalpak: bek
Kumyk: bek
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Mongolian etymology :
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Proto-Mongolian: *hike
Meaning: big
Russian meaning: большой
Written Mongolian: jeke (L 431) Middle Mongolian: jeke (HY 52, SH), ike, ikä (IM), jikä̆ (MA) Khalkha: ix
Buriat: jexe
Kalmuck: ikǝ
Ordos: iχe
Dongxian: fugie
Baoan: hgo, fgo, (MGCD) fguo Shary-Yoghur: šge, (MGCD) šige Mogol: ikä, (j)ẹkä, ZM īkä (6-2b) Comments: KW 205-206, MGCD 415, TMN 1, 553. Initial *h- here is quite certain, but is rendered as j- in MMong. because of early palatalization (*hike > *hjeke > jeke). Mong. > Manchu jekeŋge 'noble, grand' (see Rozycki 224). monget-prnum,monget-meaning,monget-rusmean,monget-wmo,monget-mmo,monget-hal,monget-bur,monget-kal,monget-ord,monget-dun,monget-bao,monget-dag,monget-yuy,monget-mgr,monget-mogh,monget-reference,
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Tungus etymology :
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Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *pegdi
Meaning: 1 big, large 2 important
Russian meaning: 1 большой 2 важный
Evenki: hegdi 1
Literary Manchu: fuǯun 2
Comments: ТМС 2, 302, 359 tunget-prnum,tunget-meaning,tunget-rusmean,tunget-evk,tunget-man,tunget-reference,
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Korean etymology :
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Proto-Korean: *pǝkh / *pak
Meaning: 1 very 2 vigorously
Russian meaning: 1 очень 2 сильно, крепко
Modern Korean: phǝk 1, pak 2
Middle Korean: phǝk
Comments: Liu 723, KED 710, 1743. koret-prnum,koret-meaning,koret-rusmean,koret-phn,koret-ako,koret-reference,
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Dravidian etymology :
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Proto-Dravidian : *pig- (?)
Meaning : heavy
Notes : PGn root.
dravet-meaning,dravet-prnum,dravet-gnd,dravet-notes,
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Gondwan etymology :
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Proto-Gondi-Kui : *pig-
Meaning : to be heavy
Proto-Pengo-Manda : *pik- Notes : The form *pik- is suffixal (from *pik-p- or *pik-s-).
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Gondi etymology :
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Proto-Gondi : *puh-
Meaning : heavy
Betul Gondi : puhtānā "to be heavy"
Mandla Gondi (Phailbus) : pū̆htānā "to be heavy"
Gommu Gondi : puh- "to be heavy"
Maria Gondi (Smith) : pooho "light, not heavy"
Chanda Gondi : puhtānā
Number in DED : 4127
Number in CVOTGD : 2321
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Pengo-Manda etymology :
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Proto-Pengo-Manda : *pik-
Meaning : to be heavy
Pengo : pik- (-t-)
Manda : pik-
Number in DED : 4127
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Kui-Kuwi etymology :
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Proto-Kui-Kuwi : *pig-/*pik-
Meaning : heavy
Kui : pigu
Khuttia Kui : pikk- "to be heavy"
Kuwi (Fitzgerald) : pikhni
Kuwi (Schulze) : pikkni
Kuwi (Israel) : pik- (-h-) "to be heavy"
Additional forms : Also Kui pīga (pīgi-) to be heavy; n. heaviness; Kuwi_F pikhali to be heavy
Number in DED : 4127
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Long-range etymologies :
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Borean (approx.) : PVKV
Meaning : hard, firm
Amerind (misc.) : *pak 'bone' (actually - 'hard, dry') (R 81) [+ K]; *pake 'stone' (R 699) [+ A] globet-meaning,globet-nostr,globet-amer,
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