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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the American Oriental Society Année : 2004

The Chinese names of the four directions

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It is shown that the Old Chinese terms for the four directions form two etymological pairs, one of which (north-south) relates to the notions of front and back (of the house: houses faced south in early China ) and the other (east-west) to notions of beginning vs. ceasing
movement, applied to the sun. The relevant word families are adumbrated, the morphology explained and Sino-Tibetan cognates established.

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Linguistique
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halshs-00087314 , version 1 (22-07-2006)

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Laurent Sagart. The Chinese names of the four directions. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2004, 124 (1), pp.69-76. ⟨halshs-00087314⟩
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