NEIGHBOUR  鄰居鄰

HUMAN who DWELLS INTENSELY NEAR to one.
Hypernym
  • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a neighbour is lín 鄰.

2. Xiàng rén 巷人 refers to street neighbours.

3. Xiāng rén 鄉人 refers to fellow villagers.

4. Sì lín 四鄰 refers to all one's neighbours on all sides.

Modern Chinese Criteria
鄰居

鄰人

鄰舍

鄰里

近鄰

街坊

左鄰右舍

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. 19.54

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    NEIGHBOUR

    vicinus is a neighbour in reference to his home being next to one's own.

    finitimi refers to neighbours who life not far from one's abode, and the relationship so denoted is one-sided.

    confines are in a mutual relationship, as opposite neighbours who have boundaries in common, with the morel nuance of friendship associated with neighbourhood.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 189

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

    VICINIA

  • 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.142

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO.142

Words

鄰  lín OC: rin MC: lin 27 AttributionsWD

The standard word for a neighbour is lín 鄰.

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 國/STATE The dominant word is guó 國, and the word naturally focusses on the capital which defines the identity of the state, but from Warring States times the word does refer to the whole of the territory, as the term guó xiāo 國削 "the state was truncated" shows.
  • Epithet: 四/EVERYWHERE Sì 四 can refer to the totality of a quadruplet of things. >>ADNOMINAL; COLLECTIVE
  • Assoc: 近/NEIGHBOUR
  • Relat: 孤/LONELY Gū 孤 (ant. zhòng 眾 "as a large group", but this lacks the emotional nuance of the counterpart) tends to connote feelings of loneliness and/or of being bereaved or suffering under the absence of associates in the place where one is. [NEGATIVE+]

    Syntactic words
  • nneighbour
  • nadNneighbouring 
  • nfigurativeassociated elements
  • nstateneighbouring state
  • n{PRED}be a neighbour
  • vt+prep+Nbe neighbour to N
  • vt[oN]fail to act as a proper neighbour to neighbours
四鄰  sì lín OC: plids rin MC: si lin 26 AttributionsWD

Sì lín 四鄰 refers to all one's neighbours on all sides.

    Syntactic words
  • NPadNneighbouring 四鄰諸侯
  • NPdefiniteall the neighbours
  • NPindefiniteneighbours
鄉人  xiāng rén OC: qhaŋ njin MC: hi̯ɐŋ ȵin 20 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N](typically one's own) neighbour from the same area/settlement
巷人  xiàng rén OC: ɡrooŋs njin MC: ɦɣɔŋ ȵin 5 AttributionsWD

Xiàng rén 巷人 refers to street neighbours.

    Syntactic words
  • NPneighbour
鄰人  lín rén OC: rin njin MC: lin ȵin 5 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)the given neighbour; N's neighbourDS
  • NPindefinitea neighbour
鄉  xiāng OC: qhaŋ MC: hi̯ɐŋ 2 AttributionsWD

Xiāng rén 鄉人 refers to fellow villagers.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 黨/FRIEND Dǎng 黨 refers to group of péng 朋pursuing a common aim, and the word is normally derogatory in meaning.

    Syntactic words
  • npluralneighbour
  • nsingulara neighbour, a person from one's own villageLZ
鄉曲  xiāng qū OC: qhaŋ khoɡ MC: hi̯ɐŋ khi̯ok 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPperson from the same area
  • NPpluralcountrymen
鄰里  lín lǐ OC: rin ɡ-rɯʔ MC: lin lɨ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP{N1&N2}pluralvillage neighbours, immediate neighbours
傍  páng OC: baaŋ MC: bɑŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nadNneighbouring
際  jì OC: skeds MC: tsiɛi 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • nabfigurativeassociated being
親里  qīn lǐ OC: tshiŋ ɡ-rɯʔ MC: tshin lɨ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPneighbour
邑里  yì lǐ OC: qrɯb ɡ-rɯʔ MC: ʔip lɨ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentialpeople from the same city or village as oneself
里巷  lǐ xiàng OC: ɡ-rɯʔ ɡrooŋs MC: lɨ ɦɣɔŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPneighbourhood
門郭  mén guō OC: mɯɯn kʷaaɡ MC: muo̝n kɑk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPnonreferentialpeople from the same part of a city
閭巷  lǘ xiàng OC: ɡ-ra ɡrooŋs MC: li̯ɤ ɦɣɔŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP{PL}neighbourhood
鄰之人  lín zhī rén MC: lin tsyi nyin OC: rin kljɯ njinCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)neighbour of the implicit NCH
傍鄰  páng lín MC: bang lin OC: baaŋ rinCH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPneighbourCH
鄰家  lín jiā MC: lin kae OC: rin kraaTWH 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPneighbouring family; neighbouring householdTWH
近  jìn OC: ɡɯnʔ MC: gɨn 0 AttributionsWD

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 鄰/NEIGHBOUR The standard word for a neighbour is lín 鄰.

    Syntactic words
  • vadNof the neighbourhood, living nearby
鄰  lín OC: rin MC: lin 0 AttributionsWD
  • 唐代稱謂詞札記 Tángdài chēngwèicí zhájì [Notes on Appellations in the Táng Dyansty] 漢語史研究集刊 Hànyǔshǐ yánjiū jíkān [Collected Research Papers on the History of Chinese], vol. 4 ( WU MAOPING 2001) p. 440

    Syntactic words
  • NPpluralneighbours, people living in the vicinity (Note that lín-shè 鄰舍 are not necessarily neighbours in the strict sense, but lín-rén 鄰人 were originally persons belonging to the same lín 鄰 which was a census unit during the Tang. A lín consisted of four families (a bǎo 保 of five families); see WU MAOPING 2001: 440.

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