GIVE BACK    還給

GIVE so as to CAUSE someone to HAVE AGAIN.
VE BACKHAND BACKPAY BACKREPAY
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for giving something back is fǎn 反. 2. Guī 歸 focusses on the giving something back being an act of returning something where it really does belong.
Modern Chinese Criteria
還給 歸 first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH
Hypernym
  • GIVE　CAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT. (anc: 12/0, child: 13)
  • CAUSE TO　MOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES. (anc: 11/0, child: 18)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.22

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.329.291

    RENDRE.REMETTRE.RESTITUER

    • Words (6 items)

    反  fǎn OC: panʔ MC: pi̯ɐn 23 Attributions

    The current word for giving something back is fǎn 反.

      Word relations
    • Oppos: 假/BORROW Jiǎ 假 emphasises the termporary aspect of borrowing.

      Syntactic words
    • vigive back things
    • vimiddle voicecome back in return; be repaidDS
    • vtoNgive back, return to the owner (a gift)
    • vttoN1(.+N2)give back N1 to the contextually determinate N2
    • vttoN1(.+N2)omgive the determinate thing N2 back to (its former owner N1)
    • vttoN1.+N2return (something N2) to (someone N1)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2return (something N1) to (its natural owner N2)反其田焉
    歸  guī OC: klul MC: kɨi 18 Attributions

    Guī 歸 focusses on the giving something back being an act of returning something where it really does belong.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcausativegive back; refuse to accept and hand back to where it belongs
    • vtt(oN1.)+prep+N2give back N1 to the contextually determinate N2
    • vttoN1(.+N2)restore N1 to the contextually determinate N2
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2give N1 back to N2
    還  huán OC: ɡʷraan MC: ɦɣan 8 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vt(oN)to give back (a contextually determinate N); to repay (money)
    • vtoNgive back
    • vtt(oN1.)+N2give the contextually determinate N1 back to N2
    • vttoN1(.+prep+N2)return N1 to the contextually determinate N2CH
    復  fù OC: buɡ MC: buk 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoN1(. prep N2)has been returned to the contextually determinate N2CH
    • vttoN1.+N2return N1 to N2TW
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2remit taxes to N2;
    復致  fù zhì OC: buɡs k-liɡs MC: bɨu ʈi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNgive back; return; restore
    還卻  huán què OC: ɡʷraan khaɡ MC: ɦɣan khi̯ɐk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt(oN)omgive back, return, repay (a contexutally determinate N)