稷
/t͡ɕi⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•foxtail millet (Setaria italica) · god of grain · minister of agriculture
Etimoloji
Sagart (2008: 134-136) considers it a cognate of Proto-Austronesian *bəCəŋ (“foxtail millet”) as part of the hypothetical Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian language family. Blust (2013: 713), however, finds this comparison unconvincing because of the apparently arbitrary and phonetically unjustified fluctuation between Old Chinese *-k and Proto-Austronesian *-ŋ. Cognates of this word are found in a…