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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷɨ̆ŋ
Meaning: bow; shoot, throw
Tibetan: skjuŋ-ba to throw, to cast.
Burmese: khwaŋh to strike at, aim a blow at, shoot (from a bow); to pierce, penetrate.
Kachin: kuŋ3 bent, crooked, kuŋ-li2 bow, cross-bow.
Lepcha: kjăŋ, a-kjăŋ, tŭŋ-kjăŋ a corner, an angle; tŭŋ-kuŋ or tŭŋ-kuŋ tŭŋ-la a rainbow
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,stibet-lepcha,
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Character: 弓
Modern (Beijing) reading: gōng
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷǝŋ
Classic Old Chinese: kwǝŋ
Western Han Chinese: kwǝŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: kwǝŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwɨŋ
Middle Chinese: küŋ
English meaning : bow
Russian meaning[s]: 1) лук (для стрельбы); 2) изогнутый, дугообразный; 3) гун (мера длины в 5 чи); 4) Гун (фамилия)
Comments: Viet. cong ('curved, bent') is colloquial; the normal Sino-Viet. reading is cung ('bow'). In Viet. there is also a doublet còng.
Radical: 57
Four-angle index: 4622
Karlgren code: 0901 a-d
Vietnamese reading: cong
Jianchuan Bai: kõ4
Dali Bai: kü5-
Bijiang Bai: kü̃4
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Chinese Dialects :
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Number: 46
Character: 弓
MC description : 通合三平東見
ZIHUI: 1712 2686
Beijing: kuŋ 11
Jinan: kuŋ 11
Xi'an: koŋ 11
Taiyuan: kuŋ 1
Hankou: koŋ 11
Chengdu: koŋ 11
Yangzhou: kɔuŋ 11
Suzhou: koŋ 11
Wenzhou: koŋ 11
Changsha: koŋ 11
Shuangfeng: kaŋ 11; kǝn 11
Nanchang: kuŋ 11
Meixian: kiuŋ 11
Guangzhou: kuŋ 11
Xiamen: kiɔŋ 11
Chaozhou: keŋ 11
Fuzhou: kyŋ 11
Shanghai: koŋ 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: kuŋ 1
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *xḳwVŋʡV́
Meaning: bow; handle
sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-yen,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *ḳŭnʡV
Meaning: handle
Proto-West Caucasian: *ḳʷǝ Notes: The comparison seems plausible both semantically and phonetically. See Abdokov 1983, 128 (attracting also several unrelated EC forms).
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Nakh etymology :
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Proto-Nakh: *ḳaj ( ~ -ā-)
Meaning: handle (of a cauldron, bucket)
Chechen: ḳaj
Ingush: ḳaj
Comments: 3d class in both languages. Because there is no Bacb. parallel, several reconstructions are possible (with *-b-, *-d-, *-g-, *-j- or *-w-); *-j is chosen because of external evidence.
nakhet-prnum,nakhet-meaning,nakhet-che,nakhet-ing,nakhet-comment,
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: ḳuIj
Meaning: handle
Lak form: ḳuIj
Comments: Cf. Khosr. ḳuIj id.
laket-prnum,laket-meaning,laket-lak,laket-comment,
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *ḳon(aj)
Meaning: 1 handle 2 wood, firewood
Kryz: ḳɨnä 2
Budukh: ḳɨnǝ 2
Archi: ḳon 1
Comment: 4th class in all languages. Arch. pl. ḳon-ot (showing that we have here a single -n-, not -nn-). The meaning 'wood, firewood' in Kryz. and Bud. is secondary: cf. Kryz. Al. ḳɨna 'crossbeam, stick' (which is closer to 'handle' in Archi).
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Khinalug etymology :
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Khinalug root: ḳana
North Caucasian etymology: 1569
Meaning: pole
Khinalug form: ḳana
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *ḳʷǝ
Meaning: handle
Adyghe: č̣́ǝ 1
Kabardian: č̣ǝ 1
Ubykh: ḳʷǝ 1
Comments: PAK *ḳǝ; Ub. def. a-ḳʷǝ́. Reasons for delabialisation in PAK are not clear.
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Yenisseian etymology :
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Proto-Yenisseian: *qäm
Meaning: arrow
Ket: qām, pl. qamǝŋ5 (кур. qamen5)
Yug: xam, pl. xamɨn5
Kottish: xem, *khem, pl. xamaŋ "стрела" (hata-gē̆m "ружье")
Comments: ССЕ 257. Werner 2, 81 <*qam>.
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