BED  

FURNITURE ON which one SLEEPS.
Hypernym
  • FURNITUREARTEFACTS OFTEN PRODUCED USING TIMBER OR BAMBOO FOR CAUSING ROOMS to BECOME APPROPRIATE DWELLINGS.
    • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
See also
  • MATA BLANKET FOR PUTTING ON the FLOOR.
    • PILLOWOFTEN (BUT NOT ALWAYS!) SOFT ARTEFACT USED TO SUPPORT the HEAD of SLEEPING HUMANS.
      Hyponym
      • CRADLE INTENSELY SMALL BED FOR BABIES.
        Old Chinese Criteria
        1. The current standard word for a bed is chuáng 床.

        2. Kuāng 筐 refers to (bamboo-made??) bedding used on a bed.

        Modern Chinese Criteria






        床鋪

        床榻

        枕席

        臥榻

        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. 7.42

        • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

          BED

          cubile refers to a place where men or animals can lie down and sleep.

          lectus refers specifically to a bed on which humans are to sleep.

        • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 203

        • Realencyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft ( PAULY 1894-1973) p. 3.370

          BETTEN

        • 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.249

        • 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.292

        Words

          chuáng OC: sɡraŋ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ
          chuáng OC: sɡraŋ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ 18 AttributionsWD

        The current standard word for a bed is chuáng 床.

          Syntactic words
        • na bed 於床 and not necessarily 於床上
        • viactuse a proper bedstead, make one's bedstead (in a place)
        • vt+prep+Nmake one's bed in the place N
          kuāng OC: khʷaŋ MC: khi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD

        Kuāng 筐 refers to bedding used on a bed.

          Syntactic words
        • nbedding
        床笫  chuáng zǐ OC: sɡraŋ tsrɯʔ MC: ɖʐi̯ɐŋ ʈʂɨ 1 AttributionWD
          Syntactic words
        • NPbed
          tà OC: thaab MC: thɑp 0 AttributionsWD
          Syntactic words
        • ncouch

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