Talk:吻

Etymology

Modern wěn, Middle Chinese mǐuən 上 (Wang Li), Old Chinese *mɯnʔ (Zhengzhang Shangfang). Variants: 呡, 呅. Character etymology: phono(勿)-semantic(口).

Original sense: "lip" (Rites of Zhou); "corner of the mouth" (Book of Han); "mouth" (Mozi). Derived senses: "loquacious", "tone, manner (of speaking)", "to be spatially close to, to touch", "to kiss" (last sense possibly [from 19th century]). Compare 抿 (mĭn, "(of mouth) to close slightly").

Other characters: 口 (kǒu, OC *kʰoːʔ, "mouth", common Sino-Tibetan), 嘴 < 觜 (zuǐ, OC *ʔseʔ, "beak > mouth"), 脣 (chún, OC *sbljun, "lip").

Compare Proto-Indo-European *mn̥to ("mouth, chin") (> Ancient Greek μάσταξ ("jaws, mouth"), Latin mentum ("chin"), mandō ("to chew"), German Mund ("mouth"), English mouth). 60.240.101.246 12:51, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

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Dialectal Synonym

@Justinrleung Hey, just a request, could you make a dialectal synonym table for "kiss"? Thanks. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 06:34, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

d->n?

phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

One moment please. Please add some detail of how d becomes n. Jidanni (talk) 14:02, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Wait. From places names like 牛屎吻山 one can see this is actually 牛屎窟山！ Jidanni (talk) 14:09, 5 November 2021 (UTC)