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#5858 PTB *m-grwa WHEAT / BUCKWHEAT (provisional)

Should perhaps be merged with #8018 TGTM *ᴮgrwa/ᴬgrwa wheat as a single, PTB-level etymon. May also be an allofam of #5857 PTB *b‑ra BUCKWHEAT.

Chinese comparandum

稼 OC *kå, GSR #32f ‘grain; sow (v.)’; Schuessler 2007:301 *krâh; B & S 2011: *kˁra‑s; Mand. jià.

Schuessler 2007:301 compares 稼 *krâh with KT: PTai *kla with tone C1, ‘young rice plant’, although he notes that ”...the medials do not agree”. However, we submit that 稼 *krâh might also be a good comparandum for the current PTB etymon WHEAT/BUCKWHEAT *m‑grwa, on semantic/phonetic grounds.

Also see comparanda for #5857 PTB *b‑ra BUCKWHEAT.