Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kaïčï

This Proto-Mongolic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mongolic

Etymology

If related to Proto-Turkic *kïptu (“scissors”), perhaps from earlier *kapïtï, although forms are difficult to reconcile. But also the evolution might be like this:

*kapïtï < *kapïčï < *kaxïčï < *kaïčï

Compare Karakhanid [script needed] (qïftu), Yakut кыптый (kïptïy), and see also *kabčï- (“to squeeze, to pinch”).

Noun

*kaïčï

1. scissors

Descendants

• Middle Mongol:
  • Arabic:
    • Muqaddimat: قايجي (/⁠qayiči⁠/)
    • Rasulid Hexaglot يحي (corrected as قيجي* (/⁠qayiči⁠/))
  • Chinese:
    • Beilu Yiyu: 海赤 (hǎichì)
    • Hua-Yi Yiyu: [Term?] (/⁠qayiči⁠/)
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠴᠢ (qayiči)
• Central:
  • Buryat: хайша (xajša)
  • Khamnigan Mongol: xaici
  • Mongolian:
    • Classical: ᠬᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠴᠢ (qayiči)
    • Khalkha Mongolian: хайч (xajč)
    • Ordos: /xæːt͡ʃʰi/
  • Oirat:
    • Written: ᡍᠠᡅᡒᡅ (xaiči)
    • Kalmyk: хәәч (xääç)
• Daur: kaic
• Qinhai-Gansu:
  • East Yugur: xaici
  • Shirongolic:
    • Monguor:
      • Mangghuer: [Term?] (khaiqi)
      • Mongghul: haiji, haiqi
    • Baoanic:
      • Bonan:
        • Gansu: xeicie
        • Qinhai: xiice
      • Dongxiang: khaichi
      • Kangjia: qaici, qeici
• Mogholi: qaici
• → Azerbaijani: qayçı
• → Bashkir: ҡайсы (qaysı)
• → Karakalpak: қайшы, qayşı
• → Kazakh: қайшы (qaişy)
• → Kyrgyz: кайчы (kaycı)
• → Southern Altai: кайчы (kayčï)
• → Tatar: кайчы (qayçı)
• → Turkmen: gaýcy
• → Uzbek: qaychi
• → Uyghur: قايچا (qaycha)
• → Persian: قیچی (qeyči)
  • → Bengali: কাঁচি (kãci), কেঁচি (kẽci)
  • → Assamese: কেঁচি (kẽsi)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: क़ैंची (qa͠icī)
    • Urdu: قینچی (qaiñcī)

References

• Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 400
• Sun Zhu (1990), 蒙古语族语言词典 [Dictionary of Mongolic Languages] (in Chinese), Qinghai, page 318
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), “318. قیچچ”, in Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 448