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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ku ( ~ g-)
Meaning: to seek, choose
Tibetan: sko, bsko to choose; go to know, understand
Burmese: Naxi *kh[ua] 'hear'
Comments: Cf. also Pumi *kuǝ 'know'; Kar. *kV-, Sulung *khVN, Naga *kɨn (with a nasal suffix) 'ear'.
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Character: 求
Modern (Beijing) reading: qiú
Preclassic Old Chinese: gu
Classic Old Chinese: gu
Western Han Chinese: gǝw
Eastern Han Chinese: gǝw
Early Postclassic Chinese: giw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gǝw
Late Postclassic Chinese: gǝw
Middle Chinese: gǝw
Fanqie: 奇尤
Rhyme class: 尤
English meaning : to seek, ask for
Russian meaning[s]: 1) просить, умолять; требовать; 2) искать; добиваться; домогаться; спрос; иметь потребность
Shuowen gloss: 索也.
Comments: For *g- cf. Min data: Xiamen, Fuzhou kiu2, Jianou kiu9 (Chaozhou khiu2 is secondary).
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 5551
Karlgren code: 1066 a-d
Vietnamese reading: cầu
Shijing occurrences: 1.2_, 9.1_, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 31.3, 33.4, 34.4, 35.4_, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3
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Chinese Dialects :
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Number: 422
Character: 求
MC description : 流開三平尤群
ZIHUI: 3061 1603
Beijing: ćhiou 12
Jinan: ćhiou 12
Xi'an: ćhiou 12
Taiyuan: ćhiou 1
Hankou: ćhiou 12
Chengdu: ćhiǝu 12
Yangzhou: ćhiôɨ 12
Suzhou: ʒ́iöy 12
Wenzhou: ʒ́iau 12
Changsha: ćiôu 12
Shuangfeng: ʒ́iû 12
Nanchang: ćhiu 12
Meixian: khiu 12
Guangzhou: khau 12
Xiamen: kiu 12
Chaozhou: khiu 12
Fuzhou: kieu 12
Shanghai: ćiɨ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: khiou 12
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *HōkV́
Meaning: to search, find
Comments and references : HGC 38. sccet-meaning,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-yen,sccet-basq,sccet-notes,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *H[o]kV
Meaning: to look, search
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Despite some influence of other verbal roots (see above), the root seems to be independent and the reconstruction looks rather probable. Note that the root has a laryngeal Anlaut and does not have prefixed class markers.
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Tsezian etymology :
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Proto-Tsezian: *hak- ( ~ ħ-)
Meaning: to search, to look
Bezhta: häk-il- (Khosh.)
Gunzib: hak-l-
Comments: PGB *hak-il-.
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: uI=či-
Meaning: to invite
Lak form: uI=či-n
Comments: G. pr. uI=ku-nu.
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *ʔakV- / *ʔokV-
Meaning: 1 to look 2 to ask 3 to search 4 to find
Agul: ad-ark- 3
Rutul: u=kʷa- 2
Tsakhur: ā=ke- 4
Kryz: i=k- 4
Archi: sa=k:a- 1
Comment: Cf. also Arch. =irk:u- 'to search'. The PL reconstruction is somewhat difficult, because the root tends to contaminate with other verbal roots: in Archi it has been influenced by ak:u-s 'to see' (see PL *ʔak:ʷä-), in Agul - by -ark- (used with different preverbs) 'to fall upon, to hit' (see PL *ʔarkɨr-).
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Yenisseian etymology :
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Proto-Yenisseian: *b[ǝ̄]k- (~w-)
Meaning: to find
Ket: bʌ:ɣǝ4 (North.); South. bʌɣ4
Yug: bʌ:hk
Kottish: bapukŋ "to find", praet. māmpukŋ (eig. mānpukŋ)
Comments: ССЕ 210. Werner 1, 156 <*bʌʔǝkǝ > *bʌʔǝgǝ>.
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Basque etymology :
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Proto-Basque: *beha
Meaning: 1 listening, looking 2 to listen, look at
High Navarrese: bea-tu 2
Low Navarrese: beha 1, beha-tu 2
Salazarese: bea-tu 2
Lapurdian: beha 1, beha-tu 2
Zuberoan: beha 1, beha-tü 2
Roncalese: bea 1, bea-tu 2
Comments: The Bsq word apparently contains a fossilized class prefix or preverb *b= : cf. PY *b[ǝ̄]k- 'to find'. This verb has influenced the form of the word for 'ear' in northeastern Bsq: *be=lar̄i (q.v.) > beharri, etc.
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