貓
/mɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Çince "貓" kelimesi Türkçe'de kedi anlamına gelir.
Çeviri
Genelkedi
Tanım
•cat (Classifier: 隻／只 m c) · to hide oneself · to hang around; to stay somewhere doing nothing
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mreːw, *mrew): semantic 豸 + phonetic 苗 (OC *mrew). The phonetic component perhaps points to the onomatopoeic nature of this word. Ma Xulun suggested that 豸 was the original character of 貓. Onomatopoeic. Compare 喵 (miāo, “meow, the onomatopoeic cry of a cat”). Schuessler (2007) reconstructs Old Chinese *mau, reasoning that 貓's place among division II syllables…