WITNESS  見證人證

HUMAN SUMMONED in LAW COURT TO EXPLAIN what s/he KNOWS that is IMPORTANT to LITIGATION.HUMAN WHO is BELIEVED TO KNOW IMPORTANT THINGS THAT are NEEDED in LITIGATION OR DISCUSSION.
OBSERVERONLOOKEREYEWITNESSSPECTATORVIEWERWATCHERBYSTANDERPASSERBY
Hypernym
  • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for bearing witness to something or against something is zhèng 證.

2. Zuǒ 左 is occasionally used to refer to a witness for or against something.

Modern Chinese Criteria
見證人

見證

證人

證明

證左

活口

知情人

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 21.23

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    TESTIMONIUM/TESTIS

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 145B

Words

證  zhèng OC: tjɯŋs MC: tɕɨŋ 1 Attribution

The current general word for bearing witness to something or against something is zhèng 證.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNobject=opponentbear witness against
左  zuǒ OC: skaalʔ MC: tsɑ 0 Attributions

Zuǒ 左 is occasionally used to refer to a witness for or against something.

    Syntactic words
  • v[adN]a witness
  • vtoNpost-v (XINTANGSHU): bear witness to
明人  míng rén OC: mraŋ njin MC: mɣaŋ ȵin 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPwitness
證左  zhèng zuǒ OC: tjɯŋs skaalʔ MC: tɕɨŋ tsɑ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NP[adN]witness
證明  zhèng míng OC: tjɯŋs mraŋ MC: tɕɨŋ mɣaŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPtoSbear witness to the truth of S

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: