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The Diachronic Evolution of Adjectives of Fatigue

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the diachronic evolution of the adjectives of fatigue “pi”(疲), “juan”(倦/惓), “lao”(劳), “ji”(极), “kun”(困), “fa”(乏), “lei”(累). It is claimed that “pi”(疲) was the dominant word during the period from Old Chinese to Middle Chinese, a position jointly occupied by “kun”(困), “fa”(乏) and “juan”(倦/惓) in Pre-modern Chinese. The new word “lei”(累) began to be used more and more from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and became the new dominant word in Modern Chinese. It is also found that from the Qing onwards, “juan”(倦/惓) “to sleep; to lie” and “fa”(乏) “fatigued; sleepy”, the two senses of “kun”(困) showed regional divergence between the South and the North.

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