GIVE BACK  還給

GIVE so as to CAUSE someone to HAVE AGAIN.
VE BACKHAND BACKPAY BACKREPAY
Hypernym
  • GIVECAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT.
    • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for giving something back is fǎn 反.

2. Guī 歸 focusses on the giving something back being an act of returning something where it really does belong.

Modern Chinese Criteria
還給

歸

first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.22

  • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.329.291

    RENDRE.REMETTRE.RESTITUER

Words

反  fǎn OC: panʔ MC: pi̯ɐn 23 AttributionsWD

The current word for giving something back is fǎn 反.

    Word relations
  • Oppos: 假/BORROW Jiǎ 假 emphasises the termporary aspect of borrowing.

    Syntactic words
  • vigive back things
  • vimiddle voicecome back in return; be repaidDS
  • vtoNgive back, return to the owner (a gift)
  • vttoN1(.+N2)give back N1 to the contextually determinate N2
  • vttoN1(.+N2)omgive the determinate thing N2 back to (its former owner N1)
  • vttoN1.+N2return (something N2) to (someone N1)
  • vttoN1.+prep+N2return (something N1) to (its natural owner N2)反其田焉
歸  guī OC: klul MC: kɨi 18 AttributionsWD

Guī 歸 focusses on the giving something back being an act of returning something where it really does belong.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNcausativegive back; refuse to accept and hand back to where it belongs
  • vtt(oN1.)+prep+N2give back N1 to the contextually determinate N2
  • vttoN1(.+N2)restore N1 to the contextually determinate N2
  • vttoN1.+prep+N2give N1 back to N2
還  huán OC: ɡʷraan MC: ɦɣan 8 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vt(oN)to give back (a contextually determinate N); to repay (money)
  • vtoNgive back
  • vtt(oN1.)+N2give the contextually determinate N1 back to N2
  • vttoN1(.+prep+N2)return N1 to the contextually determinate N2CH
復  fù OC: buɡ MC: buk 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoN1(. prep N2)has been returned to the contextually determinate N2CH
  • vttoN1.+N2return N1 to N2TW
  • vttoN1.+prep+N2remit taxes to N2;
復致  fù zhì OC: buɡs k-liɡs MC: bɨu ʈi 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNgive back; return; restore
還卻  huán què OC: ɡʷraan khaɡ MC: ɦɣan khi̯ɐk 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • VPt(oN)omgive back, return, repay (a contexutally determinate N)

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