…For example, the character shaped like the sun is thought to have originally represented the sun (utu), but through inscription it also represented the day (ud), the bright white (babbar), the white (ḫad), the pure (zalag), the dry (e), and so on. In order to avoid ambiguity in usage due to the polyphony and polysemy of such characters, the Sumerians devised a method called the determiner and phonetic supplement. The determiner is, so to speak, the equivalent of the radicals of Chinese characters, and a similar method is found in Egyptian hieroglyphics. … *Some terminology explanations that mention "determinative" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…例えば,太陽をかたどった文字は本来〈太陽utu〉を表したと考えられるが,転注により〈日ud〉〈白く輝くbabbar〉〈白いḫad〉〈清いzalag〉〈乾燥しているe〉などを同時に表した。このような文字の多音化,多義化による使用上のあいまいさを避けるために,シュメール人は限定詞determinativeと音声補記という方法を案出した。限定詞はいわば漢字の偏に相当し,エジプトの象形文字にも同趣の方法が認められる。… ※「determinative」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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