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根据动物学的推测和古文字的迹象,传说中的龙的原形可能属于爬虫类的次类中蛇的一种,有听觉不灵的生理特征。因而,“龙”作为“聋”字的结构成分,既是它的音符,也是广义的意符(暗示它充当意符的导因)。借助各家音韵和语义的考证成果,本文着重探索“聋”、“蒙”和“盲”三个词间的词族关系。引起我作这个联想的原因有二:其一是,这三个词都有“模糊不清”的含义。它们以“蒙”字的原始核心语义为出发点,衍出分别表达视觉和听觉缺陷的两个词,而这两种缺陷是某些次爬虫类共有的生理特征。其二是,这三个词的声母m-、l-间具有特殊联系。在上古汉语里,这三个词很可能同属于带有复声母*ml-词头的一个根词。那就是说,它们是从该词根的复声母词头分裂出来而衍变成的叠韵词或准叠韵词。我把它们的共同根词拟作*mlVng,其中的V代表未定值的母音。
According to zoological speculation and the signs of ancient writings, the legendary dragon’s prototype may belong to a sub-class of reptiles, a kind of snake, ill-bodied physiological characteristics. Thus, “dragon” is the structural component of the “deaf” word, both its note and its generalized meaning (suggesting that it serves as the cause of an allegory). With the research results of phonology and semantics, this paper focuses on the relationship between the three parts of “deaf”, “Meng” and “Blind”. There are two reasons why I made this association: one is that all three words have the meaning of “ambiguous”. Starting from the original core semantics of the word “Meng”, they derive two words that express the visual and auditory defects, respectively, and these two defects are the common physiological characteristics of some sub-reptiles. The other is that there is a special relationship between the initials m-, l- of these three words. In Old Chinese, the three words are likely to belong to the same root word with a polyphony. That is to say, they are rhyming words or quasi-rhyming words that have been split from the head of the vowel. I put their common root words for * mlVng, where V stands for undecided vowels.