一切經音義 80.79

80.79

Zumi 祖禰 (the first character is zu + gu fan; the Erya says: 'Zu means beginning'; Gu Yewang says: 'The forebear who began the line is the zu'; the Shuowen jiezi says: 'Zu is the founding ancestral temple; from the altar radical and ju phonetic'; the second character is ni + li fan, which is a vulgar character; the orthodox form is written with er as 禰; Zheng Zhong's commentary to the Zhouli says: 'Ni is the temple of one's deceased father'; the Gujin zhengzi writes it with the altar radical and er phonetic).