一切經音義 93.116

93.116

祖禰（上租古反爾雅祖始也顧野王云祖上也廣雅本也遠也說文祖始廟也從示且聲下泥底反古文作禰今俗從草隸作檷周禮父廟也文字典說從示爾聲轉注字）。

Ancestors and father's shrine (祖禰: the upper character has the fanqie zu-gu [zu]. The Erya says: 'Zu means beginning.' Gu Yewang says: 'Zu means ancestor; above.' The Guangya says: 'Root; distant.' The Shuowen says: 'A zu is an ancestral founder's shrine; it is derived from "altar" [示] and phonetic qie [且].' The lower character has the fanqie ni-di [ni]. In ancient script it was written as 禰; nowadays the vulgar form writes it under the "grass" radical [艸] in clerical script as 檷. The Zhouli says: 'The shrine for one's father.' The Wenzidian shuo says: 'It is derived from "altar" [示] and phonetic er [爾]; a mutually defining character [zhuānzhù].').