HAY    乾草

DRY GRASS USED FOR FEEDING ANIMALS.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006
Modern Chinese Criteria
乾草 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • GRASS　SMALL PLANT CONSISTING ONLY of ROOTS AND LEAVES, AND EATEN by SHEEP AND BOVINES. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • PLANT　CREATURE that CAN NOT VOLUTARILY MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 11)
  • CREATURE　LIVING THING. (anc: 4/0, child: 3)
  • 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.127

    • Words (8 items)

    芻  chú OC: tshro MC: ʈʂhi̯o 13 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 狗/DOG Gǒu 狗is a colloquial word for a dog (according to some early commentators a small dog, and it is plausible that the colloquial word may have referred to the small dog in particular).

      Syntactic words
    • nadNmade of straw; fed with fodder
    • nmhay, fodder (for domestic animals)
    • v[adN]hay-collectors, foragers???
    • viactto collect hay
    芻槀  chú gǎo MC: tsrhju kawX OC: tshro koowʔ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPm(bundles of) hay and firewoodCH
    荐  jiàn OC: sɡɯɯns MC: dzen 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • ngrass, fodder
    • n{PLACE}adVlive in the grasslands
    蓐  rù OC: njoɡ MC: ȵi̯ok 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nfodder
    薦  jiàn OC: tseens MC: tsen 1 Attribution

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 草/GRASS The current general term for grass, possibly including some of what we would call flowers, is cǎo 草.

      Syntactic words
    • ngrass for fodder; lush grass; lush
    茸  róng OC: njoŋ MC: ȵi̯oŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nfresh grass
    草  cǎo OC: tshuuʔ MC: tshɑu 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nmlate: hay
    薙  tì OC: thiis MC: thei 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nLIJI 5.19f: hay