是
/ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•this; this thing · to be · indicating that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
Etimoloji
“This [an independent pronoun] > this, it [object recapitulation], be right, correct, so > to be, indeed”. The modern copulative sense only emerged by the Eastern Han dynasty (Dobson, 1964; Norman, 1988; Zürcher, 2013), and gradually replaced the archaic 唯 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”) and the classical copulative construction with 也 (OC *laːlʔ). This was due to the lack of a left-branching copula as…