mother
→
vowel
6 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 9770 | child (son or daughter) | → | consonant | Open |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Cantonese Chinese | |
| lexeme 1 | mou5 (母) + jam1 (音) | |
| lexeme 2 | mou5 jam1 (母音) | |
| meaning 1 | mother + sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vowel | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme 1 | bo (母) + on (音) | |
| lexeme 2 | boon (母音) | |
| meaning 1 | mother (in compounds) + sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vowel | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin], Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Korean | |
| lexeme 1 | mo (모) + eum (음) | |
| lexeme 2 | mo'eum (모음) | |
| meaning 1 | (Sino-Korean) mother + (Sino-Korean) sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vowel | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme 1 | mǔ (母) + yīn (音) | |
| lexeme 2 | mǔyīn (母音) | |
| meaning 1 | mother + sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vowel | |
| reference | BKRS English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Southern Min (Min Nan) | |
| lexeme 1 | bú (母) + im (音) | |
| lexeme 2 | bú-im (母音) | |
| meaning 1 | mother + sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vowel | |
| reference | English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Vietnamese | |
| lexeme 1 | mẫu + âm | |
| lexeme 2 | mẫu âm | |
| meaning 1 | mother (in compounds) + sound | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dated) vowel | |
| reference | SEAlang Vietnamese | |
| comment | ||
From the notion of a mothering vowel mating with a fathering consonant and giving birth to an onsetted mora, according to Meiji-era linguists, as in father /k/ + mother あ (/a/) = child か (/ka/). This gave rise to two now obsolete phonological terms boon (母音 mother-sound) ' one of the five morae of the あ行 (agyō, “a-row”), that consists solely of a vowel' and shion (子音 child-sound) 'any of the morae with an onset consonant listed on the 五十音図 (gojūonzu, literally “chart of the fifty sounds”), such as か (ka) or し (shi), but not あ (a) or い (i), and not が (ga), じ (ji) or ぱ (pa)'. Now 母音 means 'vowel' and 子音 means 'consonant'.
From Japanese borrowed to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.