ELBOW    肘

Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the elbow is zhǒu 肘, and there are no common near-synonyms.
Modern Chinese Criteria
肘肘子<div>rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／</div><div><br></div><div>GREEK KEYWORDS</div><div>άγείρω vb. | impf. ήγειρον, ep. άγειρον | aor. ήγειρα, ep.<br>άγειρα, ep.lpl.subj. άγείρομεν || mid.: ep.3pl. άγέρονται<br>(AR.), ep.inf. άγέρεσθαι (Od., unless aor.2 άγερέσθαι) | aor.l<br>ptcpl. (w.act.sens.) άγειράμενος (AR.) | ep.aor.2: 3pl.<br>άγέροντο (unless impf.), ptcpl. άγρόμενος | ep.3pl.plpf.<br>άγηγέρατο || pass.: aor. (w.mid.sens.) ήγέρθην, ep. άγέρθην,<br>3pl. ήγερθεν, ep. άγερθεν |<br>1 cause to assemble, gather together —people, armies,<br>animals, or sim. Hom. Hdt. S. E. Th. Pl. +; (also aor.l mid.) AR.<br>2 || mid. and aor.pass. (of people, gods, animals) gather<br>together, assemble Hom. Hes. hHom. Call. AR.<br>3 collect (usu. by requesting fr. others) —goods, gifts,<br>money, or sim. Od. Hdt. E. D. AR. Plu.; (of a beggar) —pieces of<br>bread Od.; (of a bird) —food (for its young) Theoc. || mid.<br>hold a collection Od.<br>4 (specif., of women, a begging priestess) collect gifts or<br>alms —w.dat./or deities Kfr. Hdt. PL; (of women engaging<br>in ritual play at a festival, a man masquerading as a priest)<br>take a collection (fr. bystanders) Plu. | cf. αγύρτης<br>5 (fig.) put together —a series of tales Δ.; (of a whirlwind)<br>gather up —a dust-storm S.(cj., see αίρω 9)<br>6 || aor.pass. (of a person’s spirit) be rallied —w.prep.phr.<br>in their chest or heart Hom.<br></div><br>
Hypernym
    Other Hypernyms
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
    • 　 (anc: 0/0, child: 0)
    • N/A　 (anc: 3/0, child: 85)
    • Not defined　 (anc: 2/0, child: 203)
    • PRIME　 (anc: 1/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 4.32

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 210

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 14

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. no. 13

    • Words (1 items)

    肘  zhǒu OC: krluʔ MC: ʈɨu 9 Attributions

    The standard word for the elbow is zhǒu 肘, and there are no common near-synonyms.

      Syntactic words
    • npost-NN=humanelbow
    • vtoNto nudge with elbow (to give a secret sign)