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Middle Mongol
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Uyghur [Term?] (/*qağun/), from Proto-Turkic *kagun, perhaps ultimately borrowed from Middle Chinese 瓜 (kˠua, “melon”).[1]
Noun
[edit]合溫 (qɔ̌-un /qawun/)[2]
- melon, muskmelon
- 1264—1294 CE, Zhiyuan yiyu[3]:
- 苽 奥温 ― kuə̌ ʔàw-un ― ‘melone’ qawun
- 1389 CE, Huayi yiyu:
- 甜瓜 中合温 ― tʰjeḿ-ku qɔ̌-un ― ‘melone’ qawun
- 1567—1603 CE, Dada yu/Beilu yiyu
- 1610 CE, Lulongsai lüe:
- 其曰哈溫 ― qí yuē hā-wēn ― qawun ‘sweet melon’
- 兀不林我文 冬瓜也 ― wù-bù-lín wǒ-wén dōng guā yě ― ‘winter melon, wax gourd’ übülīn/übülin qawun
- 1628 CE, Wu bei Zhi:
- 甜瓜 俺荅禿襖文 ― tián-guā ǎn-lǚ-tū ǎo-wén ― ‘melone’ qawun
- Jimen fang yu kao:
- 中合文 ― qɔ̌-ʋuń ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1264—1294 CE, Zhiyuan yiyu[3]:
References
[edit]- ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 157
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (2002) Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 145
- ^ Kara, G (1990) “Zhiyuan yiyu. Index alphabétique des mots mongols”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 44, number 3, →JSTOR