信
/ɕin⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•true; accurate; verifiable · truly; indeed · trustworthy
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljins): phonetic 人 (OC *njin) + semantic 言 (“words”). Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound. Schuessler (2007) reconstructs the Old Chinese minimally as *sin and suggests possible derivation from 允 (OC *winʔ, “to trust; to be true”). Alternatively, Sagart and Baxter (2012) reconstruct *s-niŋ-s (*s-ni[ŋ]-s in Baxter and Sagart, 2014) and suggest a…