祁连
祁連Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.see 祁连县[Qí lián Xiàn]
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Wiktionary
- 1.Qilian Mountains
- 2.Qilian (a county of Haibei, Qinghai, China)
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Etymology
Qilian is said to be as a Xiongnu word meaning "sky" according to Yan Shigu, a Tang Dynasty commentator on the Hanshu. Further etymology uncertain: * Chen (1998) proposes cognation with 天 (OC *hlin) and 赫連 (OC *khak-lian), transcriptions of a Xiongnu word for "sky", which he also relates to 昊天 (OC *g'ôg-hlin); * Schuessler (2014) objects to Yan Shigu's statement that 祁連 was a Xiongnu word; he reconstructs 祁連's pronunciation around 121 BCE as *gɨ-lian and thinks that 乾 (OC *gran) (> QYS *gjän) "looks like the same etymon".
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Components
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