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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrăw
Meaning: grain, seed
Tibetan: ãbru grain, seed.
Burmese: mjǝwh (OB mluiw, mliw, mljuiw: Luce 30) seed, grain; sort, kind.
Kachin: mju3 seed, sort.
Lushai: mu a seed, kernel, KC *mu type, variety.
Comments: Bodo mu type, variety; Miri a-mî. Sh. 196; Ben. 43; Mat. 192. For the recurring meaning 'type, sort, variety' cf. OCh. 貌 *mrā(k)ws form, manner, aspect - possibly, a different ST root. See STEDT 338 *s-mu 'ball, egg, testicle' (although the basic meaning is no doubt 'seed'); should be distinguished from *mŭ 'eyeball' q.v.
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Character: 苗
Modern (Beijing) reading: miáo
Preclassic Old Chinese: m(r)aw
Classic Old Chinese: m(r)aw
Western Han Chinese: m(r)aw
Eastern Han Chinese: m(r)aw
Early Postclassic Chinese: mew
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mew
Late Postclassic Chinese: mew
Middle Chinese: mew
English meaning : grain in the blade; sprout, shoots
Russian meaning[s]: 1) всходы, побеги, ростки; 2) потомки; 3) племена мяо (нацменьшинство в провинциях Сычуань и Гуанси); 4) Мяо (фамилия)
Comments: For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen biau2, Chaozhou miǝu2, Fuzhou mieu2, Jianou miau2.
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 1743
Karlgren code: 1159 a
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Chinese Dialects :
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Number: 845
Character: 苗
MC description : 效開三平宵明
ZIHUI: 5379 1415
Beijing: miau 12
Jinan: miɔ 12
Xi'an: miau 12
Taiyuan: miau 1
Hankou: miau 12
Chengdu: miau 12
Yangzhou: miɔ 12
Suzhou: miä 12
Wenzhou: miɛ 12
Changsha: miau 12
Shuangfeng: miǝ 12
Nanchang: miɛu 31
Meixian: miau 12
Guangzhou: miu 12
Xiamen: biau 12
Chaozhou: miǝu 12
Fuzhou: mieu 12
Shanghai: miɔ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: miau 12
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *mǝ̆hwV
Meaning: grain, seed
Comments and references : VCQ 5.
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *mǝ̆hwV
Meaning: grain, seed; a k. of cereal
Proto-Avaro-Andian: *muħV Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular.
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *muħV
Meaning: 1 grain 2 seed
Avar: muh 1
Chadakolob: muh 1
Andian language: muhu 1
Akhvakh: mũhĩ 2,1
Chamalal: muhu (Gig.)
Tindi: muhu
Karata: muhu (Tok.)
Comments: Av. paradigm C (gen. muhó-l, Chad. muhí-l, pl. Chad. múha-l). Tind.-Cham. muhu > Inkh., Tsez. muhu 'grain'; Av. muh > Bezht., Gunz. muh id.
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Tsezian etymology :
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Proto-Tsezian: *moħ A
Meaning: 1 oats 2 acorn ( < *grain)
Ginukh: mu 1
Bezhta: miʔẽ (Tlad.) 2
Gunzib: moh 2
Comments: PGB *moh, obl. *mɨhe- (in Gunz. moha- there occurred a secondary vowel levelling).
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Dargwa etymology :
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Proto-Dargwa: *maħa-r
Meaning: a sort of barley
Akusha: maħaIr
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *maʔ(ʷ)
Meaning: 1 a sort of barley (голозерный ячмень) 2 wheat
Tabasaran: meʔ-er 1 (Khaidakov)
Agul: meʔ-er 1
Rutul: müʔür 3 (Ikhr.)
Comment: Reconstruction somewhat dubious - the Tab. forms quoted only from Khaidakov 1973.
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Basque etymology :
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Proto-Basque: *mihu-ri
Meaning: 1 seed (of fruit) 2 kernel (of nut) 3 to remove seeds, shell nuts 4 tiny (of fleas)
Low Navarrese: (Aldude, Amikuse) mihuri 1, 2, (Aldude) mihur-tu 3
Salazarese: miuri 4
Zuberoan: mũhṹri 1, 2, mũhũrka-tü 3
Comments: Aulestia & White (1992) define mihuri as "kernel of corn, piece of ruit, nut meat, etc."
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