THROAT  喉嚨喉

The BODY PART LINKING MOUTH AND STOMACH.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for the throat is hóu 喉, but the word refers more specifically to the place where one breathes.

2. Yān 咽 refers primarily to the place where the food passes at the opening of the throat.

3. Yì 嗌 can refer to the throat as the place where food passes in the process of eating or the place through which one breathes and is thus in a sense the most general word, but the word always remained rare.

Modern Chinese Criteria
咽喉

喉嚨

嗓子

嗓

吭

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. 4.29

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    THROAT

    glutus refers to the inside of the troat in humans.

    ingluvies refers to the inside of the throat in animals.

    faux refers to the entrance into the throat.

    guttur refers to the whole length of the throat in men or animals.

    guttulia refers to the animal throat.

    gulia refers to the human throat.

  • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 93

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

    GULA

  • "三國志"同義詞及其歷史演變 ( WANG TONGWEI 2010) p. 255-263

Words

喉  hóu OC: ɡoo MC: ɦu 5 AttributionsWD

The current general word for the throat is hóu 喉, but the word refers more specifically to the place where one breathes.

    Syntactic words
  • nthroat
咽  yān OC: qiin MC: ʔen 1 AttributionWD

Yān 咽 refers primarily to the place where the food passes at the opening of the throat.

    Syntactic words
  • ntop of the throat where both air and food pass
咽喉  yān hóu OC: qiin ɡoo MC: ʔen ɦu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPpharynx and larynx > throat
亢  gāng OC: kaaŋ MC: kɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nneck, throat (only Han time ex.)
吭  háng OC: ɡaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han, late: throat (specifically of a bird)
嗌  yì OC: qleɡ MC: ʔiɛk 0 AttributionsWD

Yì 嗌 can refer to the throat as the place where food passes in the process of eating or the place through which one breathes and is thus in a sense the most general word, but the word always remained rare.

    Syntactic words
  • nthroat as place where food passes
嗓  sǎng OC: sŋaaŋʔ MC: sɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nmodern colloquial: throat
頏  háng OC: ɡaaŋ MC: ɦɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nthroat. See 吭.

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