Abstract: The word grandmother is firstly found in the Yuan Dynasty,jin-yuan south oper Gao ming Caibojie Pipaji,which constitutes the form of the word and is the result of double tone oscillator of monosyllabic word mu.With the continuous development of the society and culture,its meaning was extended during the Ming and Qing Dynasties,but in modern times,its meaning is narrowed,and only grandmother and old woman are still living in the modern sense of the spoken and written languages in Chinese.This article deals with the evolution of the meaning of the word grandmother with a view to giving a reasonable explanation of its origins.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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