深
/ʂən⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•deep · depth; deepness · deep; profound
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljum, *hljums): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 𥥍. Unger (1995) suggests that 深 (shēn) had Old Chinese initial *n- because of 淰 (shěn)'s phonetic component 念 (niàn). Schuessler (2007) reconstructs 深 (OC *nhəm) & proposes relations to Mizo hniam (“to be low, to sink into (land)”), Burmese နိမ့် (nim., “low”), Tangkhul Naga [script needed] (kʰənim, “to be…