HELMET  頭盔冑

ARMOUR USED to DEFEND the HEAD AGAINST ATTACKS USING WEAPONS.
Hypernym
  • ARMOURDEFENSIVE WEAPONS to SAFEGUARD one's BODY IN-RELATION-TO ATTACK. 
    • WEAPONTOOL USED FOR ATTACK OR DEFENSE IN WARFARE.
      • TOOLARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for a helmet, which was current till the Han period, is zhòu 冑. It can be made of leather, bronze, and since the late Warring States also of iron. Archaeological finds are of course mostly of the bronze helmets, which are known from the Shang till the Warring States.

2. Dōu móu 兜鍪 is the term for a helmet which became common in the Han period. It probably refers mainly to the iron helmets; these were in Han times made of iron scales.

3. Móu 鍪 is another term for a helmet used in Han times.

NB: Kuī 盔 is a post-Han word for a helmet.

Modern Chinese Criteria
盔

頭盔

兜鍪

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. 20.33

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    HELMET

    cassis is the helmet made of metal.

    galea is the helmet made of skin, preferably made of weasel skin.

    cudo is a helmet of any form or shape.

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 216

    Helm:

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 756

    Helm:

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 158

  • 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.

Words

冑  zhòu OC: rliwɡs MC: ɖɨu 13 AttributionsWD

The general word for a helmet, which was current till the Han period, is zhòu 冑. It can be made of leather, bronze, and since the late Warring States also of iron. Archaeological finds are of course mostly of the bronze helmets, which are known from the Shang till the Warring States.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 介/ARMOUR Jiè 介 is another common, and syntactically flexible, word for armour.

    Syntactic words
  • nhelmet
  • viactwear a helmet; put on a helmet
胄  zhòu OC: rliwɡs MC: ɖɨu 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nhelmet
兜  dōu OC: too MC: tu 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nhelmet
盔  kuī OC: khʷɯɯ MC: khuo̝i 0 AttributionsWD

Kuī 盔 is a post-Han word for a helmet.

    Syntactic words
  • npost-Han: helmet
鍪  móu OC: mu MC: mɨu 0 AttributionsWD

Móu 鍪 is another term for a helmet used in Han times.

    Syntactic words
  • nhelmet
兜鍪  dōu móu OC: too mu MC: tu mɨu 0 AttributionsWD

Dōu móu 兜 鍪 is the term for a helmet which became common in the Han period. It probably refers mainly to the iron helmets; these were in Han times made of iron scales.

    Syntactic words
  • NPhelmet

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