Intervocalic consonants in Chinese dialect word roots and their Old Chinese origins

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Jingyi Gao

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Intervocalic consonants in Chinese dialect word roots and their Old Chinese origins

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.53644/MKI.MNYN.2025.3

Abstract

The present study* observes the intervocalic consonants in Beijing and Northeastern Mandarin disyllabic monomorphemic word roots and suggests their Old Chinese (OC) origins. It has compared (etymologized) 40 Beijing and Northeastern Mandarin disyllabic monomorphemic word roots to Old Chinese word roots. The existence of these 40 etymological units are demonstrated in 5 sets of regular sound correspondences: (1) The correspondence -p- *-p contains 6 word roots. (2) The correspondence -k- *-k contains 6 word roots. (3) The correspondence -t- *-t contains 6 word roots. (4) The correspondence - - *-t and certain rhyme groups contain 6 word roots. (5) The correspondence -l- *-t contains 6 word roots. (6) The correspondence -l- *-l contains 10 word roots.

Keywords

etymology; historical linguistics; regular sound correspondence; Sinitic; Old Chinese; Chinese dialects