FROM 自從由/自
BEGINING with in SPACE, in TIME.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Zì 自 focusses on initiation, and the reference is primarily to a time, but can also be to a place, and to the arrangement of an abstract series.
3. Cóng 從 derives its meaning from "to follow", and the reference is primarily to a place, but it can also be to an origin or cause, much more rarely to a time.
4. Yú 於 basically means "in relation to", and one of the specific meanings is "in separative relation to, from".
5. Hū 乎 basically means "in relation to", and one of its rarer specific meanings is "in separative relation to, from".
6. Dào 道 "by way of" may refer literally to a direction, but it may also refer more abstractly to a means. See USE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
自
由
打
起
於
自從
從打
打從
自打
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /
LU JIANMING
- De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione
(
COMENIUS 1665)
p.
449© A vel ab,
nota initij respectu (1) temporis (2) loci (3) causae efficientis
ut, Terra habitari coepta est (1) a Diluvio (2) a monte Ararat (3) ab hominibus.
- Using Chinese Synonyms
(
GRACE ZHANG 2010)
p.
66
Words
自 zì OC: sblids MC: dzi 108 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vt+:N{PLACE}1.+yi3+N{PLACE}2from Npl1 in the direction of Npl2 自陝已東
- vt+V1.postV2from 至自伐鄭
- vt.+SadNfrom the time SadN onwards 自君別我後
- vt0+N.adStimefrom the time N onwardsCH
- vt0+N1.+Vt0+prep+N2:postadVfrom (N1 to N2) (also in a listing)
- vt01+N1.advt02+prep+N2:adSfrom (the beginning of an abstract series 自天子達於庶人
- vt[0].oN1post-N2:adVdirectionfrom 自舟中墜DS
- vt[0]oN.postadNfrom
- vt[0]oN.postadVOBI 4: from 出自湯谷
- vt[0]oN.postadVreflexive.己from (oneself)
- vt[0]oN1[.adN2]those from the place N1LZ
- vt[0]oNdirectionfrom (a place)LZ
- vt[0]oNPab{S}.postadVfrom NP-ing [Note that the syntactic category will become vt[0]+NPab[S] if we systematically implement the current interpretation of prepositions.]
- vto.N以後/下.adSfrom the time N onwards, S
- vtoNOBI 3: come from
- vtoN.adStemporalfrom time N onwards [note that N tends to refer to a point in time rather than to a quantified stretch of time]
- vtoN.adVOBI 5: from; starting out from a place; 自楚之滕 "went from Chu3 to Te2ng" also a time: 所自生 "that wherefrom something is born"
- vtoN.adV:adSfrom (my point of view)...; from (this time onwards
- vtoN.adVfigurative(abstractly) fromCH
- vtoN.adVpsychto V taking (oneself) as the point fo departure
- vtoN1.+VtoN2:adStimefrom N1 to N2 (自古及今)LZ
- vtoNab{ACT}.postadVfrom (doing something)
- vtoNreflexive.己take one's point of departure from (oneself)
- vtoS.+yi3+Vfrom the time when S onwards
從 cóng OC: dzoŋ MC: dzi̯oŋ 47 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN.)+Vto V from the contextually determinate N
- vtoN(come on>) follow from, be the result of; be in accordance with
- vtoN.adVfrom
- vtoN.adVfigurativeform > deriving from; on the basis of
- vtoN.adVN=abstractfrom (an abstract location)
由 yóu OC: liw MC: jɨu 30 AttributionsWD
- Word relations
- Synon: 發/ISSUE
- Synon: 階/RELY ON
- Oppos: 尾/TAIL
The general word for a tail of any animal, including birds, is wěi 尾.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNcome out through, emerge through, emerge from
- vtoN.adVcoming forth from, from
- vtoN.adVfigurativefrom (abstractly, non spatially), taking as a point of departure
- vtoNfigurativecome from, arise from; have as a basis
於 yú OC: qa MC: ʔi̯ɤ 26 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vt[0]oN.postadV免於今之世"get away from the present world": away from, out fromCH
- vt[0]oN.postadVN=sourcefrom the source NCH
- vtoN.adVtfrom
- vtoN.postadVfromCH
- vtoN.postV{PASS}from 得於"be obtained from"
乎 hū OC: ɢaa MC: ɦuo̝ 18 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vt[0]oN.postadV異乎我與若"be different from me and you": (distant or away or originating) from
導 dǎo OC: ɡ-luus MC: dɑu
導道 Click here to add pinyin OC: MC: 15 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- nabmetaphysicalthe source from which something arises, the reason why something occurs
- vtoN.adVdǎo?? by way of, through; by means of
去 qù OC: khas MC: khi̯ɤ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoN.adVfrom
向 xiàng OC: qhaŋs MC: hi̯ɐŋ 1 AttributionWD
- Studies in the Language of Zu-tang Ji 祖堂集
(
ANDERL 2004C)
p.
333 - 虛詞歷史詞典 Xūcí lìshǐ cídiǎn A Historical Dictionary of Function Words
(
HE JINSONG 1994)
p.
279
- Syntactic words
- vtoN.adVfrom (this is a Tang vernacular usage of xiàng; there are examples in ZTJ and BIANWEN, occasionally in Tang poetry; there are also occasional examples dating from the Song and even later periods, e.g. GUZUN, XIYOUJI)
猶 yóu OC: k-lu MC: jɨu 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoN.adVloan for 由: from
所自 suǒ zì OC: sqraʔ sblids MC: ʂi̯ɤ dzi 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPobjectthe place wherefrom
所從 suǒ cóng MC: srjoX dzjowng OC: sqraʔ dzoŋDS 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPobject: the place wherefrom DS
于 yú OC: ɢʷra MC: ɦi̯o 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vt[0]oN.postadVOBI: from
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