黔
/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•black · to blacken by tanning or exposure to smoke · Name of a prefecture in ancient China now located in Chongqing and Guizhou.
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡram, *ɡrɯm): semantic 黑 (“black”) + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm) Perhaps an areal word related to Longzhou Zhuang kʰam¹ ("cloudy; dark"), Proto-Katuic *koom (“black”) (Schuessler, 2007). See also 黮 and 紺.