煤
/meɪ̯³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•coal (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿 c) · dust of smoke; soot
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯː): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ). Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possibilities: * Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-mu² (“soot; acrid (smoke)”). If related, a merger of Minimal Old Chinese *ə with *o must have occurred. * Cognate with Mizo mang (maŋᴿ), man (manᴸ, “sooty”), Mizo mang (maŋᴴ, “partially burnt wood”). 文 (OC *mɯn) may…