Talk:味
Add topicFlavor?
[edit]Can "flavor" be one of the meanings? Badagnani 01:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
What happened to significance of written form of character?
[edit]What happened to the significance of the written form of this character? This would seem to be of great educational importance. Badagnani 08:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- This entry has never had any etymological information. Robert Ullmann 12:13, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Etymology
[edit]Modern "wèi", Middle Chinese "muj去", Old Chinese *"mɯds".
Vietnamese "mùi" ("scent, odour"), which doesn't conform to Sino-Vietnamese correspondences, is probably an earlier loanword. Korean ablaut doublets 맛 (mas, "taste") / 멋 (mes, "fig. taste, smartness") (transcription in Yale to avoid 받침 neutralisation) are also possibly related. mes is possibly related to 魅 (mèi, OC *mrɯds, "charm", note it shares the same phonetic part with 味), 媚 (mèi, OC *mrils, "charm, love"), 美 (měi, OC *mriʔ, "beauty"). 60.240.101.246 04:47, 29 September 2011 (UTC)