西夏语“狮子”词源考  

On the Etymology of “lion” in Tangut Language

作　　者：唐均[1] John TANG(School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong university, 610021, Chengdu, China)

机构地区：[1]西南交通大学外国语学院

出　　处：《北方工业大学学报》2019年第3期60-65,共6页Journal of North China University of Technology

基　　金：2011年度国家社会科学基金特别委托项目“西夏文献文物研究”(11@ZH001)子项目“西夏文献语言参考语法”

摘　　要：西夏语"狮子"一词明显是个外来词,此前仅有美籍德裔学者劳费尔做过比较明确的词源推定。现在,根据原始汉藏语词根构拟、汉藏语借词、汉藏-阿尔泰语言接触以及东亚-印支语言共有的词根同义复合等多项原理,我们重新推断西夏语"狮子"语汇乃是由借自原始孟高棉语的原始汉藏语词根"虎"和借自梵文的藏文词根"狮子"第一音节同义复合而成,同缅语支的"狮子"术语差可构成同源关系,其间体现出鲜明的东南亚语言组分和结构特征来。The term for "lion"in Tangut language is obviously a loanword,on which only the American German Berthold Laufer has made the etymological speculation. Nowadays,based on the Sino-Tibetan radical reconstruction,the Sino-Tibetan loanword research,the Sino-Tibetan and Altaic contacts,and the Eastern Asian and Indochinese common radical synonymic compounds,the term for "lion"in Tangut language can be re-considered to be the Proto-Sino-Tibetan term "tiger"borrowed from Proto-Mon-Khmer together with the first syllable of the Tibetan root "lion"borrowed from Sanskrit,which is roughly cognate to the Burmish terms for "lion"from the striking perspective of Southeastern Asian language group.

关 键 词：西夏语 狮子 词源 同义复合词 

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