港
/kɑŋ²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•tributary of a larger river or lake · river · port; harbor
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs): semantic 水 (“river; water”) + phonetic 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs). Cognate with 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “river”) (Schuessler, 2007). The southern dialectal word originally meant "small river/stream", which is still preserved in some Min languages. The irregular pronunciation in Mandarin (expected Mandarin reflex is *jiǎng) originated from southern dialects where…