This paper identifies a Late Old Chinese word for silk in Mongolic and its comparanda in Old Uygur, Chagatay, New Persian, Jurchen, Manchu, Ewenki, and Solon. Routes of lexical borrowing are identified, and their likely historical contexts are discussed. This paper offers contributions to the study of early Chinese ethnolinguistic contact with neighboring peoples

An Old Chinese word for ‘silk’ in Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Persian.

SHIMUNEK, Andrew
2017-01-01

Abstract

This paper identifies a Late Old Chinese word for silk in Mongolic and its comparanda in Old Uygur, Chagatay, New Persian, Jurchen, Manchu, Ewenki, and Solon. Routes of lexical borrowing are identified, and their likely historical contexts are discussed. This paper offers contributions to the study of early Chinese ethnolinguistic contact with neighboring peoples
2017
Inglese
15
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Esperti anonimi
silk fabric, historical-comparative linguistics, Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, Persian, Middle Mongol, Old Chinese, Qin-Han, Jurchen, Manchu, Chagatay, phonological reconstruction, loanwords
Internazionale
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Shimunek, Andrew
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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