THRESH    打榖

WORK to SEPARATE GRAIN FROM HUSK.
Old Chinese Criteria
000???
Modern Chinese Criteria
打榖 is the standard modern word for threshing. 舂 (obs) is the obsolete classical word for threshing. 顛簸 is to toss things about, as in threshing, and the word is marginal in the group. rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • WORK　Make an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY. (anc: 14/0, child: 7)
  • EFFORT　DELIBERATE DILIGENT TRY:attempt to SUCCEED in an ACTION. (anc: 13/0, child: 2)
  • TRY　ACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING. (anc: 12/0, child: 9)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 8.34

    • Words (1 items)

    舂  chōng OC: qjoŋ MC: ɕi̯oŋ 1 Attribution

    Chōng 舂 refers to unhusking grain by the strikes of the pestle.

      Syntactic words
    • viactthresh grain
    • vtoNpound (grain); hull grain with a mortar