一切經音義 16.34

16.34

Old and senile (老耄: [the second character] has the fanqie m- + [b]ao [=mào]; the Yunying says: 'Mào (耄) means old'; the Book of Rites says: 'Eighty and ninety are called mào (旄)'; the sound is the same as above; Zheng's commentary says: 'Mào (耄) means confused and forgetful'; the Shuowen says it is formed with 'old' [老] and mao [毛] as phonetic).