Two Rhyming Mongolic Words in Kitan Assembled Script
Two Rhyming Mongolic Words in Kitan Assembled Script
Author(s): György KaraSubject(s): Language studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Liáoshĭ; Kitan language; etymology
Summary/Abstract: This note discusses the reading, the meaning and the history of two Mongolic words, šawa ‘bird of prey’ and čala ‘stone’ of the Kitan language written in the second of the two writing systems of the Kitan Liao Empire, the assembled, or composite, or as commonly called, ‘small’ script.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 74/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 673-684
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
