MONTH  月

PERIOD of APPROXIMATELY 30 DAYS into which the YEAR is DIVIDED.
Hypernym
  • PERIODTIME CONSISTING of a LIMITED SEQUENCE of MOMENTS.
    • TIMEABSTRACT OBJECT that all EVENTS ARE-IN.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
  • WEEKPERIOD of TYPICALLY 7 OR 10 DAYS into which the MONTH is DIVIDED.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The general term for a month is yuè 月, and this word is current already in OBI where it is translatable as "moon" referring literally to a lunar period.

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    2. Huì 晦 refers to the last day of a month.

    3. Shuò 朔 refers to the first day of every month.

    4. Wàng 望 refers to the full moon, the sixteenth or seventeenth day of a lunar month.

    5. Xián 弦 refers to the half full moon, period around 7th/8th and 22nd/23rd day of a lunar month.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    月

    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. 14.71

    • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 623

    Words

    月  yuè OC: ŋod MC: ŋi̯ɐt 13 AttributionsWD

    The general term for a month is yuè 月, and this word is current already in OBI where it is translatable as "moon" referring literally to a lunar period.

      Syntactic words
    • nmonth
    • nmonthsCH
    • nadVtimeevery month, month by month; once a month
    • npost-V{NUM}NUMth monthDS
    • vt(oN)indicate the month for a contextually determinate event
    • vtoNdeclarativespecifiy the month for an event, provide the month for an event (in the annals)
    閏  rùn OC: njuns MC: ȵʷin 4 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nabintercalary month
    • vtoNdeclarativedeclare N an intercalary month
    正月  zhēng yuè OC: tjeŋ ŋod MC: tɕiɛŋ ŋi̯ɐt 2 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPfirst month of the year
    晦  huì OC: hmɯɯs MC: huo̝i 1 AttributionWD

    Huì 晦refers to the last day of a month.

      Word relations

      Syntactic words
    • nlast day of the month
    三月  sān yuè OC: saam ŋod MC: sɑm ŋi̯ɐt 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPadSin the third month
    弦  xián OC: ɡeen MC: ɦen 0 AttributionsWD

    Xián 弦 refers to the half full moon, period around 7th/8th and 22nd/23rd day of a lunar month.

      Syntactic words
    一月  yī yuè OC: qliɡ ŋod MC: ʔit ŋi̯ɐt 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPpost-N.adSin the specified first lunar month
    中呂  zhōng lǚ OC: krluŋ ɡ-raʔ MC: ʈuŋ li̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPFourth Month of the lunar calendar

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