溟
Meanings
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- 1.to drizzle
- 2.sea
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Wiktionary
- 1.sea; ocean
- 2.deep; dark
- 3.drizzling
- 4.used in 溟涬 and 涬溟
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ): semantic 水 + phonetic 冥 (OC *meːŋ). Thought by classical commentators to be the same word as 冥 (OC *meːŋ, “dark, black (of water)”) (likely in light of the parallelism with the unrelated 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ, “sea, ocean”) < 晦 (OC *hmɯːs, “dark”)). If so, see 冥 (OC *meːŋ) for etymology. Schuessler (2007) proposes that there is an outside chance this can be instead connected with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mlik, whence Old Burmese မ္လစ် (“river”), Burmese မြစ် (mrac), Rakhine [script needed] (mreik, “sea”), Daai Chin [Term?] (mlik (tui), “big water, river, sea”)
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