翁
Meanings
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- 1.surname Weng
- 1.elderly man
- 2.father
- 3.father-in-law
- 4.neck feathers of a bird (old)
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Wiktionary
- 1.elderly man
- 2.father
- 3.father of one's husband or wife
- 4.husband
- 5.the feathers of a bird's neck
- 6.a surname
- 7.to contract muscles on one's face, usually causing folds to appear
- 8.used in 翁翁
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qloːŋ): phonetic 公 (OC *kloːŋ) + semantic 羽 (“wings”). Originally representing the meaning “feathers”, it was later loaned to mean “old man” and similar senses, by association with the semantic 公. Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Compare Mizo ung (“to be old, elderly, aged; to be venerable, antique, ancient; to be of long standing, to be an old inhabitant, to be an old stager (v.; adj.)”) (Schuessler, 2007). Baxter & Sagart (2017) included 翁 (OC *qˤoŋ) "old man" in the same word-family as 公 (OC *C.qˤoŋ) "father, prince" and 妐 (OC *t-qoŋ) "husband's father".
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Related words
富翁 rich person醉翁 wine-lover翁姑 husband's father and mother负翁 debtor (jocular term, homonymous with 富翁[fù wēng])翁源 see 翁源县[Wēng yuán Xiàn]凫翁 watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)翁山 see 昂山[Áng Shān]老翁 old man尊翁 (honorific) your father莎翁 Shakespeare翁婿 father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law白头翁 root of Chinese pulsatilla