Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kă ( ~ g-, q-, G-)

Meaning: canal, water-furrow

Chinese: 渠 *g(r)a canal.

Tibetan: rka a small furrow conveying water; flower-bed.

Chinese characters :

Character: 渠

Modern (Beijing) reading: qú

Preclassic Old Chinese: ga

Classic Old Chinese: ga

Western Han Chinese: ga

Eastern Han Chinese: ga

Early Postclassic Chinese: go

Middle Postclassic Chinese: go

Late Postclassic Chinese: go

Middle Chinese: gö

English meaning : be great, grand

Russian meaning[s]: 1) водосточная труба (канава); 2) большой, великий; 3) он

Comments: The character is also used for homonymous words: 'outer rim of a wheel'; 'gutter' (since LZ). For *g- cf. Xiamen ku², Fuzhou kü² (Chaozhou khɨ² is secondary).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 5160

Karlgren code: 0095 g

Vietnamese reading: cù'

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1437

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 渠

MC description : 遇合三平魚群

ZIHUI: 3255 0982

Beijing: ćhy 12

Jinan: ćhy 11

Xi'an: ćhy 12

Taiyuan: ćhy 1

Hankou: ćhy 12

Chengdu: ćhy 12

Yangzhou: ćhy 12

Suzhou: ʒ́y 12

Wenzhou: ʒ́y 12

Changsha: ćy 12

Shuangfeng: dy 32

Nanchang: ćhy 12

Meixian: khi 12

Guangzhou: khö_y 12

Xiamen: ku 12

Chaozhou: khɨ 12

Fuzhou: kü 12

Shanghai: ćy 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: khiu 12

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