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

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...

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Main Author: SHIMUNEK, Andrew
Other Authors: Shimunek, Andrew
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
silk fabric
historical-comparative linguistics
Mongolic
Turkic
Tungusic
Persian
Middle Mongol
Old Chinese
Qin-Han
Jurchen
Manchu
Chagatay
phonological reconstruction
loanwords
Ewenki
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11574/179522
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Summary: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

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