Another character for the word "rice plant" in Old Chinese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2771689 |
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| Authors | Masaki Nohara (0000-0003-4318-2214, Kyoto University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-356 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x24000132 |
| OpenAlex | W4393150031 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Two kinds of grain, "millet, 粟米 sùmǐ" and "husked rice, 稻 dào", frequently appear in the Liye Qin Slips. Aside from these grains, another character seen in the Liye Qin Slips, nǎo, is thought to represent grain. It also represents the words for "brain, 腦 nǎo" in other excavated documents. Since the archaeological data show that rice cultivation was practised around the middle and lower Yangtze Valley, the homeland of Proto-Hmong Mien (formerly the state of Chu 楚地), the word for "rice plant, 稻 dào" seems to be a loanword from Proto-Hmong Mien *mbləu. The character nǎo is reconstructed as *nʕuʔ, which bears the same onset as the sound for "rice plant (or husked rice)" in North and East Hmongic languages nɯ ( *n-) in these languages could have occurred at the latest just before or after the Qin dynasty
Character (mathematics) · Linguistics · Word (group theory) · GABA and Rice Research · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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