ELEPHANT  大象

INTENSELY BIG BEAST which HAS IVORY TEETH AND A LONG TRUNK.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for the elephant is xiàng 象, and there are no common near-synonyms.

Modern Chinese Criteria
大象

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. 3.77

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 228

    Elefant, gefluegelt; als Reittier

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 737

    Elefant; Elefant als Reittier:

    A surprising number of depictions of Elephants are collected and described.

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • n : 12
  • NP : 1

Attributions by text

  • 賢愚經 : 4
  • 韓非子 : 4
  • 春秋左傳 : 1
  • 淮南子 : 1
  • 孟子 : 1
  • 祖堂集 : 1
  • 楚辭 : 1

Words

象  xiàng OC: sɢlaŋʔ MC: zi̯ɐŋ 12 AttributionsWD

The standard word for the elephant is xiàng 象, and there are no common near-synonyms.

    Syntactic words
  • nelephant
大象  dà xiàng OC: daads sɢlaŋʔ MC: dɑi zi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPelephant

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