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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qhǝ̄wH
Meaning: head
Tibetan: mgo head; first place, principal part, ãgo officer, captain.
Burmese: uh head, beginning, LB *(s)ɣu.
Lushai: ? kô, KC *kô head.
Comments: Cf. also Tib. mgon principal, master; lord; BG: Garo sko, Dimasa sagau ; Digaro mkau ~ mku-ra. Sh. 50; Ben. 149. KC k- is quite irregular and suggests that there may be two roots: *k(h)ow(H) head and *qhōwH sovereign, principal - merging in some languages.
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Character: 后
Modern (Beijing) reading: hòu
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghōʔ ghōʔs
Classic Old Chinese: ghṓ
Western Han Chinese: ɣwā́
Eastern Han Chinese: ɣwā́
Early Postclassic Chinese: ɣṓw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ɣǝ̄̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: ɣǝ̄̀w
Middle Chinese: ɣʌ́w ɣʌ̀w
Fanqie: 菏藕
Rhyme class: 宥, 有
English meaning : prince, sovereign, a major lord
Russian meaning[s]: 1) государь, правитель; императрица; 2) после, затем, вм. 後
Shuowen gloss: 繼體君也. 象人之形. 施令. 以告四方. 故厂之. 從一口. 發號者. 君后也. 凡后之屬皆從后.
Comments: Also read *ghōʔ-s, MC ɣл̀w id. For *gh- cf. Xiamen au6, Chaozhou au4.
Radical: 30
Four-angle index: 1135
Karlgren code: 0112 a-b
Vietnamese reading: hậu
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *χqVHV́
Meaning: lord, prince
North Caucasian: PWC *χ́ǝ 'prince'
Comments and references : HGC 27. sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-yen,sccet-notes,
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Yenisseian etymology :
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Proto-Yenisseian: *χɨji
Meaning: prince
Ket: qɨ̄j, pl. qɨjeŋ5,6
Kottish: hīji, *hīje, pl. hījan, hīkŋ "lord, prince"; Ass. hii (М., Сл.); hu, huj (Кл.)
Arin: bikhej (М., Сл., Кл.) "lord"; (Стр.) birkej "lord (König)"; (Лоск.) kej "superior, power"; berkekej "lord"
Comments: ССЕ 301. Ket and Yug have also a synonymous kɨ̄j 'prince' (see Werner 1, 472). The relationship between these variants is not quite clear. One cannot exclude that Ket qɨ̄j is historically a compound (qɛʔ 'big' + kɨ̄j 'prince', with a contraction). In this case one should rather reconstruct PY *kɨji.
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