阿魏
Chinese edit
| phonetic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (阿魏) | 阿 | 魏 | |
| simp. #(阿魏) | 阿 | 魏 | |
| alternative forms | 阿䭳 | ||
Etymology edit
Borrowed from some unspecified language in the Western Regions.
Attested first in Medieval Chinese, and was reported to have come from the Jia-she-na (< ga-ʑa-na?) (伽闍那) country in Northern India―possibly referring to modern Ghazni in Afghanistan.
Compare Persian انگدان (angodân), انگژد (angožad), Tocharian B aṅkwaṣ, Khotanese aṃgūṣḍa-, Arabic أَنْجُدَان (ʔanjudān), Sanskrit हिङ्गु (hiṅgu), all meaning “asafoetida” and all possibly derived, ultimately, from Proto-Iranian *Hanguǰatu (“asafoetida”), where *ǰátu is “gum” (cf. Modern Persian ژد (žad)) and the first part *Hangwr̥ (“resin”).
This term was discussed in detail in Sino-Iranica. Zhengzhang (2006) points out that the sibilant final in Tocharian B ("Kuchean") aṅkwaṣ matches the tonogenesis of Middle Chinese 去聲／去声 (qùshēng, “departing tone”) from Old Chinese in 魏 (MC ngjw+jH) < 魏 (OC *ŋɡuls).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
阿魏
Synonyms edit
- 形虞 (xíngyú)