LICK  

TOUCH USING one's TONGUE CAUSE TO BECOME MOIST.
PASS ONE'S TONGUE OVERTOUCH WITH ONE'S TONGUETONGUELAP
Hypernym
  • TOUCHINTERACT with a SURFACE USING one's FINGERS OR one's BODY.
    • INTERACTACT so as to CAUSE ANOTHER TO REACT.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for licking is shì 舐.

2. Shǔn 吮 adds to the notion of licking that of sucking.

NB: Tiǎn 舔 is post-Buddhist.

Modern Chinese Criteria


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. 4.59

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 118

Words

  shǔn OC: ɢljunʔ MC: ʑʷin 4 AttributionsWD

Shǔn 吮 adds to the notion of licking that of sucking.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNto lick and suck
  shì OC:  MC: ʑiɛ 2 AttributionsWD

The current word for licking is shì 舐.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNto lick at
  huài MC: xweajH OC: --LZ 1 AttributionWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoN(= tian3 舔) lickLZ
  • vtoNconative(= tian3 舔) try to lickLZ
  tiǎn OC: lʰiimʔ MC: them 0 AttributionsWD

Tiǎn 舔 is a post-Buddhist term for licking

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNpost-Han: lick

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