泉
Meanings
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- 1.spring (small stream)
- 2.mouth of a spring
- 3.coin (archaic)
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Wiktionary
- 1.springwater (Classifier: 口 m; 眼 m)
- 2.mouth of a spring
- 3.mythical abode of the dead
- 4.an ancient type of coin
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 白 (“spring mouth”) + 水 (“water”) – water flowing from the source of a spring. See also 原. Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs the Old Chinese as *dzwan and also reconstructs Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tso (“to bubble; to boil”) (> Tibetan འཚོད་པ ('tshod pa, “to be boiled”), Tibetan བཙོས (btsos, “to cook in boiling water”), Burmese ဆူ (hcu, “to boil; to bubble”)), and considers 泉 (OC *sɡʷen, “spring (of water)”) to be cognate to it (with an n-suffix nominalization). However, STEDT considers the above three Tibeto-Burman terms to be descended from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tsjow (“to boil; to burn; to bake; to bake”), to which 焦 (OC *ʔsew, “to roast; to burn; to scorch”) is cognate.
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