A Probable Fusion-word: wuh = wu jy

A. C. Graham

doi:10.1017/S0041977X0008424X

A Probable Fusion-word: wuh = wu jy

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009

A. C. Graham

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The discovery that a number of classical particles originated by the fusion of other, generally better understood, words, has already contributed a great deal to the understanding of eariy Chinese literature. The examples of such contraction which can already be taken as reasonably certain are:—

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Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1952 , pp. 139 - 148

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X0008424X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1952

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^{note 139 note 1} Several cases of fusion are mentioned by the Sonq authors Sheen Kuoh and Jenq Chyau , to which my attention has been called by Dr. Simon and Mr. Gordon Downer: Kuoh, Sheen, Menqchi Biitarn Google Scholar; Syhbuhtsongkan , j. 15, p. la Chyau, Jenq, TongjyhGoogle ScholarTongjyhliueh (Luenn Hwa-Fann ), Basic Sinological Series vol. i, p. 653Google Scholar.

^{note 145 note 1} Mencius, Legge 131/8 is not an exception since means not “snatch, steal” but “snatch from, rob”. In Mencius is never followed immediately by the thing stolen, but by the person or thing robbed.

Consequently means “Don't rob them of their proper times”. The fact that is used here, but in the immediately preceding parallel (131/7) is natural since can be the direct object of but not of .