CHIMNEY    煙囪

TUBE OR HOLE IN a ROOF THROUGH which SMOKE LEAVES a STOVE.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. There is only one term for a chimney, tū 突, and archeological evidence suggests that the chimney took the form of a hole in the roof. NB: Words like cōng 囪 and yān cōng 煙囪 are all late.
Modern Chinese Criteria
煙囪 yāncong is the current modern word for a chimney. 煙筒 煙突 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • HOLE　EMPTY SPACE in a SURFACE. (anc: 7/0, child: 7)
  • SPACE　What ALL THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • BE IN　RELATION between a THING AND what that THING FILLS OR PART:partially FILLS. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
Other Hypernyms
  • TUBE　INTENSELY LONG HOLE which has THIN WALLS. (anc: 8/0, child: 2)
  • HOLE　EMPTY SPACE in a SURFACE. (anc: 7/0, child: 7)
  • SPACE　What ALL THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 7.33

    • Words (1 items)

    突  tū OC: duud MC: duot 0 Attributions

    There is only one term for a chimney, tū 突, and archeological evidence suggests that the chimney took the form of a hole in the roof.

      Syntactic words
    • nchimney