MORTAR  碓臼

HEAVY VESSEL of the SHAPE of a BIG CUP which is USED TO GRIND OR MIX FOOD IN.
Hypernym
  • VESSELHARD CONTAINER USED FOR PUTTING SUBSTANCES INTO it.
Old Chinese Criteria
NB: that the discovery in Han times of what is called today the shuǐ mó 水磨 "wet mill" was connected with the development of Toufu. The wet mill was apparently still simply called mó 磨.

Modern Chinese Criteria
碓臼

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. 9.55

  • 漢代無知文化資料圖說 ( SUN JI) p. 17

Words

臼  jiù OC: ɡuʔ MC: gɨu 4 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nheavy stone mortar (same type as that still widely used in China and South East Asia)
  • nadVin a mortar; using a mortar
碓  duì OC: k-luuls MC: tuo̝i 3 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nHYDCD 7.1056 has picture: mortar with stone club, later mechanised device combining these two into one contraption for the process of chōng 舂. This requires skill avoiding to squash the grain by not pounding too hard, and pounding hard enough to remove the husk. The device was moved with one's feet in Platform Sutra times: 蹋碓
杵  chǔ OC: ŋʰjaʔ MC: tɕhi̯ɤ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nbroad stick of stone used to quash things in a mortar; mace
扇  shàn OC: qhjens MC: ɕiɛn 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nHAN: mechanised winnowing device (YAN SHIGU: 扇車)
磑  wèi OC: ŋɡʷɯɯls MC: ŋuo̝i 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nLUNHENG: stone mill
磨  mò OC: maals MC: mʷɑ 0 AttributionsWD

NB: that the discovery in Han times of what is called today the shuǐ mó 水磨 "wet mill" was connected with the development of Toufu. The wet mill was apparently still simply called mó 磨.

    Syntactic words
  • nMO: stone mill
礱  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nQIMINYAOSHU: stone mill
  • vtoNGY: to grind in mill
水碓  shuǐ duì OC: qhjulʔ k-luuls MC: ɕi tuo̝i 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPmill run by water, water mill
颺扇  yáng shàn OC: k-laŋ qhjens MC: ji̯ɐŋ ɕiɛn 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPa mechanised winnowing device first mention in SONG sources, but in Han times the device existed, being called simply shàn 扇

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