Tanım
•mirror; reflecting glass (Classifier: 塊／块 c) · lens; -scope · spectacles; glasses
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kraŋs): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 竟 (OC *kraŋs). Probably cognate with 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “bright”), 影 (OC *qraŋʔ, “shadow”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Gong (2019) identifies the unknown preinitial *C in the reconstruction *C.qraŋʔ-s by Baxter and Sagart (2014) with *s based on evidence from Old Vietnamese, and further posits…