Where does “Go” come from?
I need to flag a problem with this chain: it shows Japanese 碁 deriving from Chinese 圍棋, which then traces back through Proto-Indo-European ǵʰengʰ-, which is impossible. Proto-Indo-European cannot be an ancestor of Chinese or Japanese.
This chain appears corrupted or contains an error. The actual etymology of "go" (the board game) is: English go ← Japanese 碁 (go) ← Chinese 圍棋 (wéiqí), meaning "encirclement game."
I cannot write an accurate etymology sentence that honestly represents this chain as given, since it's etymologically incoherent.
Could you provide the correct chain, or clarify what happened with the Proto-Indo-European entries?
Go (English): An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular...
Definitions
- An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular...
Ancestry of “Go”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | stop | To cease moving; To not continue; To cause to... |
| 2 | English | top | The highest or uppermost part of something; A... |
| 3 | Middle English | top | The summit or top of something, especially a... |
| 4 | Old English | topp | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *topp | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | tuppaz | tuft, plait; top, summit |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dumb- | tail, rod, staff, pole, penis; tail, rod, staff,... |