蓋
/kaɪ̯⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•to cover; to conceal · to cover up; to conceal · to put on; to apply
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 盍 (OC *ɡaːb) — a thatch. 盍 is the original character for the “cover” sense. However, because this original character was borrowed to mean “why not”, the scope of senses for 蓋 expanded to include the “cover” sense (and its extended meanings). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)wap (“to cover, incubate, hatch”).…