Frigoris

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Resources for Chinese: my collection for online resources when working with Chinese entries.

चीनलिपिं f (cīnalipiṃ) (Lal 10, p. 88) — we need more of them.

Question: when to use the etymological language code sa-bhs (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit) and when to use just "Sanskrit"? What if the "source" text is unknown?

Words of wisdom for lexicographers:

• 述而不作
• ad fontes ("A motto of Renaissance humanists.")
• 信以傳信，疑以傳疑
• 吾猶及史之闕文也
• 人之學也，或失則多，或失則寡，或失則易，或失則止。
• 人之患在好為人師
• Dans ce qui nous est donné comme universel, nécessaire, obligatoire, quelle est la part de ce qui est singulier, contingent, et dû à des contraintes arbitraires ? — Foucault
• c. 1 CE – 200 CE, Vimalakīrtinirdeśa 9.3:

  अशिक्षितो न परिभवितव्यः

  aśikṣito na paribhavitavyaḥ

  The unlearned is not to be slighted.

Useful templates:

• Category:Sanskrit reference templates
• {{sa-root|PIE=...|PII=...}}
• {{vrddhi}}

User Pages

• Tech stuff: /common.css
• To-do list
• *Seringas, possible reference to the Chinese people in Anglo-Saxon literature.
• /Words from The Lamentation for the South densely packed with 典故 but also poetic vocabulary
• /Disyllabic given names in OC given names found in Pre-Qin classics that might have been formed with disyllabic morphemes
• /昧雉彼視 (and "麻夷非是"), oaths in OC.
• /Rhymes, lost rhyming due to phonetic shift, etc.
  • See also: /Eye rhymes
• /姑蘇, almost incomprehensible
• /Fausses amies, false friends
• /Lizard words, lizard words
• /Modern Germanic Place Names - blame Rua for this.
• /Ethnonyms
• /Consonantal changes - the language of early Buddhist transmission into China
• /Pāṇini reincarnated - a folk tale collected by Xuanzang, about the rebirth of Pāṇini as a boy who was forced to study linguistics. Beside an account of the Buddhization of Gandhara, there's also a lesson for philologists somewhere, maybe.
• /Chinese issues in Adams Dictionary - Chinese issues in the Adams (2013) dictionary for Tocharian B.

Some entries for fun

in muribus

1. in mice (formed congruently to "in vitro" and "in vivo")

   We have found an in muribus cure for every disease. It kills a human instantly.

待罪閨中

1. to await the inevitable punishment of matrimony

Ill-constructed non-Sanskrit

Please don't actually add these words.

• चतुर्भूमि (caturbhūmi, “having four grounds”, bahuvrihi compound) - the game of baseball or softball.
• पञ्चाङ्ग (pañcāṅga, “having five arms”) - the game of xiangqi, with infantry, chariotry, cavalry, elephantry, and artillery. Cf. चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
• एकोनविंशतिवर्गतीर्थ (ekonaviṃśativargatīrtha, “having nineteen-by-nineteen passages”) - the game of go.
• महाजङ्गाल (mahājaṅgāla, literally “big raised-enclosure; great dyke around a field”) - mahjong, phono-semantic matching of 麻將／麻将 (májiàng). However, जङ्गाल (jaṅgāla) may have been a dictionary-only word.