騎

Glyph origin
– to ride horseback

Etymology
Wanderwort in the E/SE Asian Sprachbund. The STEDT reconstructs 🇨🇬, and comments that "many of the TB forms seem to be borrowings from Chinese 騎".

Outside Sino-Tibetan, cognates are also found in Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai and some Mon-Khmer languages. Benedict (1975) surmises that this is an ancient loan into Proto-Sino-Tibetan from Austro-Tai:

"... but these [Tibeto-Burman] forms appear to involve old loans from AT [Austro-Tai] with typical loss of an original medial *w (Thai *khwi ~ *gwi)."

while Peiros (1998), Sagart (2006), Schuessler (2007) (who suggests that is possibly endopassive "let oneself be carried (on the back of an animal)" of ) and Pittayaporn (2014) think the directionality of borrowing is reversed. The following excerpt is taken from Sagart's review (2006) of Matisoff's book Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman (2003):

"The collection of forms under Matisoff's high-vowelled *gyi 'ride' are from TB languages in contact with Chinese (Lolo-Burmese, Qiangic, Tujia): they are best regarded as late loans from Chinese. ... The idea that the Chinese vocabulary of agriculture, metallurgy, horse-riding etc. might contain numerous loans from an early SEA language is simply not to be taken seriously in view of modern Asian archaeology (Bellwood 1997), quite apart from the fact that it makes no linguistic sense (Sagart 1999 for metal names). Yet Matisoff's book is scattered with observations telling the reader that words like 'writing brush' and 'ride' just discussed may well be loans from Austro-Tai into ST (188; 504)."

Below lists some cognates for "to ride" found in various languages in this Sprachbund.


 * Lolo-Burmese: : 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,
 * Southwestern Tai: *kʰwiːᴮ: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * Hmong-Mien: : 🇨🇬
 * Mon-Khmer: West Bahnaric *ɟih, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Also compare 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation 2 is a Late Old Chinese general purpose derivation from Pronunciation 1.

Definitions

 * 1) to ride (a horse, bicycle, etc.)
 * 2) to sit astride
 * 3)  to ride; to mount (someone in sex)

Definitions

 * 1) horse or vehicle that one rides on
 * 2) mounted soldier

Kanji

 * 1) ride horseback
 * 2) mount
 * 3) cavalry

Etymology
From. Already used phonetically in to spell unvoiced ki, as in the place name.

Attested as a counter in the early 1200s, and as a standalone noun in the late 1800s.

Affix

 * 1) riding on horseback
 * 2) a horseperson

Counter

 * 1)  horseperson

Noun

 * 1) riding on horseback
 * 2)   a horseperson