Antonym

• BEASTBIG WILD VERTEBRATE.

Hypernym

• ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE.
  • CREATURELIVING THING.
    • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....

Hyponym

• BOVINE　BIG BEAST or DOMESTIC ANIMAL which has HORNS, AND that SOMETIMES CAN be CAUSED TO PULL PLOUGHS... [BIOLOGY]
  • MALE BOVINE　BOVINE that is MALE.
  • CALF　YOUNG BOVINE.
• DOG　COMMON DOMESTIC OR WILD ANIMAL which HAS FOUR LEGS. [BIOLOGY; CANIS]
  • BITCH　FEMALE DOG.
  • PUPPY　YOUNG DOG.
• OVINE　SMALL FURRY DOMESTIC ANIMAL USED FOR PRODUCING WOOL OR MILK. []
  • EWE　FEMALE OVINE.
  • LAMB　YOUNG OVINE.
  • RAM　MALE OVINE.
• HORSE　COMMON BIG DOMESTIC ANIMAL WHICH HAS HOOFS AND a MANE, AND is ABLE TO PULL VEHICLES OR PLOUGHS.
  • CARRIAGE HORSE　A HORSE USED to PULL a CARRIAGE.
  • COLT　YOUNG HORSE.
  • MARE　FEMALE HORSE.
  • STALLION　MALE HORSE REARED FOR CAUSING OTHER HORSES TO BECOME PREGNANT.
• SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL　DOMESTIC ANIMAL USED in SACRIFICE.
• DONKEY　DOMESTICAL ANIMAL [ASINUS]
• CHICKEN　COMMON KIND of BIRD REARED as DOMESTIC ANIMAL.
  • COCK　MALE CHICKEN
  • HEN　FEMALE CHICKEN.

Old Chinese Criteria

Modern Chinese Criteria

Old Chinese Contrasts

• A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 3.15

• Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

  DOMESTIC ANIMAL

  pecus is the most general expression for domestic animals, but the word may also refer specifically to smaller domesti animals like swine, goats and especially sheep.

  iumenta domestic animals of the larger sorts, bullocks, ases, horses, and the word may refer specifically to beasts used for drawing carriages.

  armenta refers to animals used in ploughing, oxen and horses, with the exclusion of cows, pack-asses, ridfing-horses and the like.

• Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 755

  Haustiere:

• Und folge dem, was mein Herz begehrt Hamburger Sinologische Schriften ( STUMPFELDT 2002) p. 1.93-136

• "Sachwoerterbuch zum Alten China" ( UNGER SACH) p.

  TIER

• 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 173

• Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 1.1307

• 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. 89B