WIDOW  寡婦

WIFE BEREAVED of her HUSBAND OR WOMAN LACKING a HUSBAND.
Hypernym
  • WIFEMARRIED FEMALE MATE.
    • MATEADULT with whom one COPULATES.
      • ADULTHUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME.
        • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS....
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

HUMAN AFFAIRS 29. UNMARRIED LADY

寡，老而無夫的婦人或有夫獨守的婦人。

孀，喪夫之婦，方言詞。

嫠，喪夫之婦。

怨女，超過婚齡而無夫的女性。

巫兒，留家不嫁的長女。

Modern Chinese Criteria
寡婦

孤孀

孀婦

孀娥

孀老

遺孀

半邊人

未亡人

寡妻

孀雌

嫠婦

望門寡

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. 2.76

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

    VIDUA

  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 941

Words

嫠  lí OC: ɡ-rɯ MC: lɨ 3 AttributionsWD

Shuāng 孀 and the rarer lí 嫠 "widow".

    Syntactic words
  • nadNwidowed; bereaved of the husband
  • nsubject=humanwidowZUO
寡  guǎ OC: kʷraaʔ MC: kɣɛ 3 AttributionsWD

    Syntactic words
  • nwidow
  • n{PRED}malebecome a widower
夫人  fū rén OC: pa njin MC: pi̯o ȵin 3 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)widow
  • NPpost-Npro(his) widowCH
孀  shuāng OC: sqraŋ MC: ʂi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD

Shuāng 孀 and the rarer lí 嫠 "widow".

    Syntactic words
  • nplurthe widows
  • vtoNpassivebe widowed
寡女  guǎ nǚ OC: kʷraaʔ naʔ MC: kɣɛ ɳi̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPwidow (but are we sure that this is not also used for orphans)
寡婦  guǎ fù OC: kʷraaʔ buʔ MC: kɣɛ bɨu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPwidow

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