Zhuang And Dong Ethnic History Books, Spoken Word "etymology To Explore

Etymology means the origins of the pronunciation and meaning of a single word and a cluster of homologous words. It belongs to the historical comparative linguistics.There are different etymologies in different languages. Chinese etymology mainly focuses on the origins of a single word and a cluster of homologous words. And Kam - Tai etymology is the broad - sense one that includes the origins of prefix, parts of speech, old loanword and the word marked by Chinese characters in addition to involve what Chinese one contains.Etymology is the foundation of lexicology, semantics, phonetics and grammar. Ant it also plays an important role in history and ethnologyThe etymological research goes back to ancient times. Liu Xi, a glossaristwrote the first book about etymology------- "Shi Ming" in China as early as theHan Dynasty. The Qing dynasty saw a series of etymological works such as "Shuo Wen Jie Zi Zhu" by Duan Yucai, a glossarist, "Guan Ya Shu Zheng" by Wang Niansun, a glossarist and phonologist, and "Guo Luo Zhuan Yu Ji" by Cheng Yaotian, an etymologist, which propelled etymology forward . The "Etymological Investigations" by A. F. pott, a Germanic linguist, in the nineteenth century , emptied new theories and methods into etymology. Zhang Taiyan, a famous scholar and Huang Kan. a glossarist , phonologist and writer, preliminarily put forward theory of Chinese etymology in the end of the nine-...