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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 15:11

๐—ญ˜ [ยนtsa'โ‚] 'long legged' (?) is constructed from the left side of ๐—ญ‡ [ยฒgeโ‚„] 'shin' and the left side of ๐˜™ฒ [ยนjoโ‚ƒ] 'long' {๐—ญ‡๐˜Šฑ๐˜™ฒ๐˜Šฑ} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiLโ€ฆ


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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 15:19

The meaning of ๐—ญ‡ as 'shin' is certain, as the Chinese-Tangut bilingual glossary Pearl in the Palm has the entry ๐—ญ’๐—ญ‡ [ยฒgeโ‚„ ยนkhyโ‚„] = ่„š่„› jiวŽojรฌng 'foot and shin'. The meaning of ๐—ญ˜ is less clear. Li Fanwen glosses it as ่…ฟใ€่„› 'legs; shin', but I think it may be an adjective.


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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 15:30

Aside from the Homophones, which has the entry ๐˜™ฒ๐—ญ˜ [ยนjoโ‚ƒ ยนtsa'โ‚] 'long (leg ?)' (babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyinโ€ฆ), the only occurrence of ๐—ญ˜ that I can find is in the Proverbs, where it is reduplicated, and is paralleled with three other reduplicated adjectives:


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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 15:45

๐—ซ๐—ฒž๐—ซ๐——ฌ๐˜–‚๐—‹š๐—ข‹๐—ดบ๐—ญ˜๐—ญ˜๐˜ˆท๐—…Ÿ๐—…Ÿ

Between the two hills a deer gave birth: the mother is *long legged*, the son is spindly [legged]

๐—ฒŒ๐—กด๐—ฝ“๐—›ฒ๐—ฐ๐—‹š๐—ฅš๐—ดบ๐˜ธ๐˜ธ๐˜ˆท๐˜‚™๐˜‚™

In the rivers and on the edges of the marsh a frog gave birth: the mother is medium-sized, the son is middle-sized


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