一切經音義 3.51

3.51

老耄 (the upper character is *lè* + *nǎo* [fanqie: lǎo]; the Erya says: "'Lǎo' means venerable age." The Kaosheng says: "Long-lasting; old." The Quli says: "Seventy years of age is called 'mào'." The Shuowen jiezi says: "'Mào' means old; derived from 'máo' (hair), 'rén' (person), and 'bǐ' (匕), where 'bǐ' is *huà* [fanqie], meaning that a person's beard and hair have transformed into white is called 'lǎo'." The lower character is *máo* + *bào* [fanqie: mào]; the Liji says: "Eighty and ninety years of age is called 'mào'." Zheng Xuan says: "Confused and forgetful." The Shuowen jiezi writes it as 𧂕: "Ninety years of age; derived from 'lǎo' with an abbreviated 'hāo' as phonetic").