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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pă[l]
Meaning: fence
Kachin: nphan1 a fence, as around a field.
Lushai: pal a fence, a palisade, a hedge, KC *pal.
Comments: BG: Dimasa, Garo bāri, Bodo bari place, garden; Kham bar a fence or partition, barLna a wall; Trung pel1 wall. Sh. 409, 427. [Probably 2 roots: one with *-r, one with *-ɫ).
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-kach,stibet-lush,stibet-comments,
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Character: 藩
Modern (Beijing) reading: fán
Preclassic Old Chinese: par
Classic Old Chinese: pan
Western Han Chinese: pan
Eastern Han Chinese: pwan
Early Postclassic Chinese: pwan
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pwǝn
Late Postclassic Chinese: pwǝn
Middle Chinese: pwǝn
English meaning : hedge, screen
Russian meaning[s]: 1) изгородь, плетень; загородка, решетка, ставни; 2) защищать(ся), охранять, ограждать; 3) ист. окраина, вассальные земли, дальние владения; власти дальних владений; вассалы; вассальный
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 1782
Karlgren code: 0195 s
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *bŏlcĒ
Meaning: fence
Comments and references : Cf. PAN *bala / *bara / *baRa 'pen, enclosure'.
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *bŏlcĒ
Meaning: fortification, wall
Notes: Correspondences are regular. The Av., Lak. and Darg. forms probably reflect a former plural *bŏlcĒ-rV̆- (cf. also Tab. marc-ar); hence the Av. paradigm C.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-aand,caucet-lak,caucet-darg,caucet-lezg,caucet-abad,caucet-comment,
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Avar-Andian etymology :
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Protoform: *bVcV-rV
Meaning: fortification, dike
Avar: bucúr
Comments: Av. paradigm C (bucrá-l, búcra-l).
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: bucur
Meaning: barrier; carpet and bed clothes (near the wall)
Lak form: bucur
Comments: Lak. > Ag. Bursh. bucur 'gutter' ("a barrier for water").
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Dargwa etymology :
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Proto-Dargwa: *mucari
Meaning: wall
Akusha: mucari
Comments: Cf. also Ur., Muir. mucari id.
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *malc
Meaning: 1 wall 2 fortified place 3 hearth 4 boundary, furrow
Lezghian: mac
Tabasaran: marc-ar 3
Agul: mac 3 (Bursh.)
Rutul: mas 1
Tsakhur: mac 4
Budukh: mas 2
Comment: Obl. base *malcɨ- (cf. Lezg. macu-, Ag. Bursh. maca-, Tsakh. macɨ-); 4th class in Rut., 3d class in Bud. and Tsakh. The basic meaning is "a fortification, a hardly accessible place in mountains", and hence "a shelf on the wall" (this is the meaning in lit. Lezg.; the Khliut dialect has an irregular form: maz, erg. mac:ani 'furrow, boundary').
lezget-prnum,lezget-meaning,lezget-lzg,lezget-tab,lezget-agu,lezget-rut,lezget-cak,lezget-bud,lezget-comment,
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *mǝć:ǝ
Meaning: wall
Abkhaz: a-tʒá-mc
Comments: Cf. also Bzyb. a-tʒ́á-mć id. (tʒa- "house, household"). Isolated in Abkh., but having probable EC parallels.
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