SOW    播種種

AGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to CAUSE PLANTS TO BEGIN to GROW..
PLANTSCATTERSPREADDISPERSESTREWDISSEMINATEDISTRIBUTEBROADCASTDRILLSEED
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for sowing is zhòng 種 (ant. shōu 收 "harvest"). 2. Bō 播 focusses on the spreading of seeds over a field. 3. Jià 稼 (ant. sè 穡 "harvest") refers specifically to the sowing of grain. 4. Shù 樹 is marginal in this group because the word refers generally to planting seedlings rather than sowing. 5. Yì 藝 can occasionally be used to refer specifically to the planting of rice seedlings and the like. 6. Zhí 殖 (ant. huò 獲 "harvest") includes the planting as well as the ensuing cultivation of domesticated plants. 7. Zāi 栽 refers to placing of seedlings of any kind or provenance in the earth as part of agricultural cultivation, and the word first became current in Eastern Han times. 8. Shí 蒔 refers to the replanting of seedlings from one cultivated patch to another.
Modern Chinese Criteria
播種 is the current modern word for sowing seeds, and the word focusses on the spreading of the seed. 下種 focusses on putting the seeds down. 點種 is to dibble in seeds. 點播 refers nominally to dibble-seeding. 點 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • TO PLANT　SOW so as to PUT INTENSELY YOUNG PLANTS into the EARTH FOR:in order to CAUSE them to GROW. (anc: 17/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • AGRICULTURE　WORK IN FIELDS TO REAR USEFUL PLANTS.  (anc: 15/0, child: 4)
  • WORK　Make an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY. (anc: 14/0, child: 7)
  • EFFORT　DELIBERATE DILIGENT TRY:attempt to SUCCEED in an ACTION. (anc: 13/0, child: 2)
  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.419; 1.377

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  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 111 and 276

    • Words (12 items)

    樹  shù OC: djoʔ MC: dʑi̯o 19 Attributions

    Shù 樹 is marginal in this group because the word refers generally to planting seedlings rather than sowing.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe plantingCH
    • vadNSHI 76: planted
    • viactplant trees
    • vtoNunmarked nominalisation: the planting of NCH
    • vtoNfigurativesow the seeds of (warfare etc)
    • vtoNobject=plantSHI 198: plant (trees)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2plant (something N1) (with N2, i.e.trees etc)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2figurativeemplant N1 in N2
    種  zhòng OC: tjoŋs MC: tɕi̯oŋ 15 Attributions

    The current word for sowing is zhòng 種 (ant. shōu 收 "harvest").

      Syntactic words
    • vido the sowing, sow the fields
    • vt(oN)figurativeplant the seeds of the contextually determinate N
    • vtoNto sow (seeds of a plant); to plant (a tree)
    • vtoNfigurativelay the foundations of, "plant"; BUDDH: plant the seeds of
    殖  zhí OC: djɯɡ MC: dʑɨk 11 Attributions

    Zhí 殖 (ant. huò 獲 "harvest") includes the planting as well as the ensuing cultivation of domesticated plants.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactsowing, putting seed in the ground
    • viactto plant; to cultivate
    • vtoNsow, plant, cultivate
    • vtoNfigurative"plant"
    • vtoNpassivebe planted; be cultivated
    播  bō OC: paals MC: pʷɑ 4 Attributions

    Bō 播 focusses on the spreading of seeds over a field.

      Syntactic words
    • viactsow seed
    • vtoNsow
    蓺  yì OC: ŋeds MC: ŋiɛi 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • visow; plant (SHI)
    • vtoNsow; plant
    • vttoN1.+N2plant (some place N1) with (something N2)
    稼  jià OC: kraas MC: kɣɛ 3 Attributions

    Jià 稼 (ant. sè 穡 "harvest") refers specifically to the sowing of grain.

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 耕/AGRICULTURE Gēng 耕 refers to any agricultural work involved in the growing of crops of any kind; however, the term also refers specifically to ploughing and thus turning over and loosening the ground for cultivation.

      Syntactic words
    • viactsow grain; to farm
    • vtoNsow grain
    栽  zāi OC: skɯɯ MC: tsəi 2 Attributions

    Zāi 栽 refers to placing of seedlings of any kind or provenance in the earth as part of agricultural cultivation, and the word first became current in Eastern Han times.

      Syntactic words
    • viplant
    • vtoNplant
    藝  yì OC: ŋeds MC: ŋiɛi 1 Attribution

    Yì 藝 can occasionally be used to refer specifically to the planting of rice seedlings and the like.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcultivate
    • vtoNactcultivate; sow grain
    滋  zī OC: tsɯ MC: tsɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsow (flowers, orchids)
    蒔  shì OC: ɡljɯs MC: dʑɨ 0 Attributions

    Shì 蒔 refers to the replanting of seedlings from one cultivated patch to another.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNreplant seedlings from one patch where they were reared in another where they are to grow for later harvesting
    植  zhí OC: djɯɡ MC: dʑɨk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNplant
    稙  zhì OC: tɯɡ MC: ʈɨk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsow early ????