SPINE  脊背

SEQUENCE OF BONES FROM NECK TO ABDOMEN AND THE BODY PART SURROUNDING IT.
BACKBONESPINAL COLUMNVERTEBRAL COLUMNBACKTECHNICAL RACHIS
Hypernym
  • BONEINTENSELY HARD BODY TISSUE.
    • BODY TISSUEIMPORTANT NOT LIQUID SUBSTANCES IN THE BODY.
      • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT....
  • HIPLOWEST PART OF THE SPINE AND LOWER PART OF THE TRUNK ABOVE THE BUTTOCKS
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The general term for the back of a person or an animal is bèi 背.

    2. Jǐ 脊 and the much rarer lu# 膂 / 呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.

    Modern Chinese Criteria


    背脊

    脊背

    脊梁



    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. 4.19

    • A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body ( IORDANSKAJA 1996) p. 347

    • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 263

    • 古辭辨 Gu ci bian ( WANG FENGYANG 1993) p. 124

    • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 95

    • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 8A

    Words

      bèi OC: pɯɯɡs MC: puo̝i 8 AttributionsWD

    The general term for the back of a person or an animal is bèi 背.

      Word relations
    • Ant: 鄉/DIRECTION Xiāng 鄉 refers to a direction as seen from a subject.

      Syntactic words
    • nback
    • nadNconducted behind one's back
    • nadVbehind one's back, behind the back
    • npost-Nspine of NDS
      jǐ OC: tseɡ MC: tsiɛk 8 AttributionsWD

    Jǐ 脊and the much rarer lu# 膂/呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.

      Syntactic words
    • nspine
      jiū OC: kʷɯ MC: kɨu
      guī OC: kʷrɯ MC: ki
      jiū OC: kʷɯ MC: kɨu
      guī OC: kʷrɯ MC: ki 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • nhighest part of the spine (e.g. of a deer)
      lǚ OC: raʔ MC: li̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD

    Jǐ 脊and the much rarer lu# 膂/呂 refer specifically to the spine of vertebrates.

      Syntactic words
    • nspine, backbone

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