夷
/i³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•ancient tribes in China · barbarian; foreigners; non-Han people · to treat as barbarian; to consider as Yi
Etimoloji
Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 矢 (“arrow”) + 弓 (“rope”); the original meaning was "to shoot" (arrows) according to Chen Bingxin (陳秉新). Later forms ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 大 (“person; big”) + 弓 (“bow”). According to Yuè Juè Shū (越絕書), 夷 (OC *lil) is also the Yue word for "sea" (1). Therefore, Schuessler (2007) proposes an Austroasiatic origin; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *d(n)liʔ…