水
/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•water (Classifier: 瓶 m; 樽 c; 滴 m c; 池 m c; 盆 m c; 杯 m c) · liquid; potion; juice · molten metal
Etimoloji
Pictogram (象形) of water flowing; sometimes written as the variant 氺 (e.g., 泰, 录, and 黎). Next to a character, it is compressed and stylized into 氵 (which is unrelated to 冫). Compare 川 (OC *kʰjon) and its variant 巛. Compare also 永 and its cognate 𠂢. See also the bottom part of 原 in its original version (厡). Here are some proposals: * Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(j) (“flow; stream”) (Benedict, 1974;…