Talk:獅

Etym?
Researching the etymology of Japanese, I found that Gogen Allguide's entry here claims that this is derived from 🇨🇬. However, Unihan's entry for here shows a Tang-era reading of shri, making any phonetic derivation from siṃhá look a bit unlikely.

Does anyone else have additional information? -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Likely from Middle Persian. 獅 / 獅子 / 師 / 師子 was first mentioned in the , in the description of the "specialties" of the 烏弋山離 country in the . 烏弋山離 in Old Chinese had the pronunciation of, so this referred to *Alexandria, likely "", which was part of the Parthian Empire during the time of Han, speaking some Indo-Iranian language. 師 in Old Chinese was , so Middle Persian šēr would be the closest.


 * Unrelatedly, an earlier Chinese name for the lion (or something like it), as recorded in , was 狻猊/狻麑, looking quite similar to *šēr (probably only the first syllable meant "lion", the second syllable also meant "fawn"). Wyang (talk) 09:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I added an etym and simple def for the Mandarin term, see what you think. It might be good to include the bit about 狻猊/狻麑  in a   section.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 20:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January 2019–April 2020

 * See Talk:獅子.

RFV discussion: July–September 2021
Rfv-sense: "Shi (an islet in Lieyu, Kinmen, Taiwan)". 嶼 is probably no longer productive in Hokkien. RcAlex36 (talk) 15:43, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Pinging, who added this sense. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 16:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I like the entry, I am fine with removing this definition for 獅. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 16:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 16:55, 13 September 2021 (UTC)