| ▲ | z500 4 days ago |
| What terminology should we be using? Old Chinese reconstructions on Wiktionary always look so wildly divergent to me. |
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| ▲ | singularity2001 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| Old Chinese reconstructions drive me crazy, or the fact that some scholars insist these are 99% correct instead of 'best guesses' |
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| ▲ | earthboundkid 4 days ago | parent [-] | | They are pretty well founded. You can read old rhyme dictionaries and see how the words evolved eg when borrowed by Japan at one time and then when borrowed again a couple of hundred years later. We can’t ever know 100% but it’s not idle speculation either. | | |
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| ▲ | demetrius 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Rhyme dictionaries describe Middle Chinese, not Old Chinese. Old Chinese involves much more guesswork. |
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