續一切經音義 5.139

English (machine translation) 5.139

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5.139

Calves and cows [犢牸] (The first character has the fanqie phonetic spelling 徒 + 木; the Erya states: "Its young is a calf"; Guo Pu's commentary says: "People of Qingzhou nowadays call a calf 𤘽, pronounced 火 + 口"; the second has the fanqie phonetic spelling 疾 + 吏; the Qieyun says a female bovine is called a zi; it is composed of bovine [牛] with 字 as phonetic; zi also means to love and to nurture).

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