續一切經音義 6.51

6.51

Viper and pit-viper (蚖蝮: the first character has the fanqie *w- / w-*, a kind of snake; the Xuanzhong ji states: "The yuan snake is three to four chi long and has four feet, shaped like a gecko; along its spine are needle-spines sharp as knives; it is extremely poisonous and malicious, and anyone struck by it dies within half a day"; the second character has the fanqie *f- / f-*, Lu's Jingdian shiwen states: "The fu snake has a needle-spine on its snout; large ones weigh over a hundred jin; one name is fanbi (upturned-snout), another name is fuhui (pit-viper)"; both characters are phono-semantic compounds derived from chong 虫 with yuan 元 and fu 復).