沝

/ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/

ÇINCE → TR

Tanım

•two rivers; wide river; confluence of rivers · alternative form of 水 (shuǐ, “water; river (especially as a Min word)”)

Etimoloji

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 水 (“water; river”) + 水 (“water; river”). Compare 淼 (OC *mewʔ) and 㵘. Baxter & Sagart (2014) relate 沝 to 水 and reconstruct them both as 沝 (OC *turʔ) and 水 (OC *s.turʔ) respectively in Old Chinese. Sagart (2017) derives them both from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ; if true, see there for non-Sinitic cognates. Even so, see 水 for its alternative reconstruction and…