9.0 Shape, Size, Color, Measure, Number, Time, Space > 9.9 Numbers and numeric expression

#5863 PTB *khrəy TEN THOUSAND (provisional)

Chinese comparandum

皆 Mand. jiē ‘all’; B & S 2011: *kˁrij; Schuessler 2007:310-11 *krij.
偕 xié ‘in company with’ *kˁrij
諧 ‘harmonious’ *gri
師 shī ‘multitude, army’ Schuessler *sri B & S *srij

For sense development, cf. English ‘myriad’, i.e. ‘countless, large number’ < Greek murioi ‘ten thousand’