The Chinese names of the four directions
The Chinese names of the four directions
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四个方向的中文名称
DOI：
10.2307/4132154
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
0.3
通讯作者：
L. Sagart
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作者：
L. Sagart
研究表明，古汉语中的四方词形成了两个词源对，其中一个(北-南)与前、后(中国早期的房屋朝南)有关，另一个(东-西)与开始与停止运动的概念有关，适用于太阳。对相关词族进行了预测，对词法进行了解释，建立了汉藏语同源词。
It is shown that the Old Chinese terms for the four directions form two etymological pairs, one of which (north-south) relates to the notions of front and back (of the house: houses faced south in early China ) and the other (east-west) to notions of beginning vs. ceasing movement, applied to the sun. The relevant word families are adumbrated, the morphology explained and Sino-Tibetan cognates established.