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| Ross Clark to HenHanna |
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| 13 Sep 24 23:10:38 |
From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz On 13/09/2024 3:01 p.m., HenHanna wrote: > On 9/12/2024 11:12 AM, mwgamera wrote: >> On 2024-09-12, HenHanna wrote: >>> Does 野分 in Chinese mean 颱風 (台風, Typhoon) ? >>> >>> in Japanese, 野分 , 野分, のわ (or Nowake) means that. > > >> >> I suspect the context is the title of one of the parts of Genji >> Monogatari >> where it was translated as ‘the typhoon’ into English. >> >> On the surface the word looks like a Japanese coining; like a literal >> ‘field-splitting [wind]’. And the etymology given by Digital Daijisen is: >>> 《野の を風が強く吹 分ける意》 >> >> Why should it mean anything in Chinese? Perhaps it might appear for >> the same >> reason Google Translate went with “nowaki” in English, ie. as an >> untranslated >> foreign term. >> > > > 野分 · late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside; typhoon, esp. > one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year > And where did that come from? --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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