TY  - JOUR
SN  - 1012-4195
T1  - Jo Chih Ho 若之何→Nai Ho 奈何
AU  - Edwin G. Pulleyblank
Y1  - 1988/06/01
PY  - 1988
DA  - 1988/06/01
T2  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JF  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JO  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JA  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
VL  - 59
IS  - 2
SP  - 339
EP  - 351
Y2  - 1988/06/01
N2  - This paper discusses the proposal made by Yoshida Megumi 吉田惠 in 1954 that the word nai 奈 in the expression nail ho 奈何 is derived from a phonetic fusion of the words jo chih 若之 in the longer expression jo chih ho 若之何 that means the same thing.  It is shown that this hypothesis makes sense in terms of the relative chronology of the two expressions in texts of the Chou period and that the phonetic difficulties are lessened if one accepts proposals that I have put forward elsewhere for Old Chinese reconstruction, though lack of an exact parallel for this particular fusion makes it difficult to come to a firm conclusion.  Some related problems concerning other members of the word family of ju 如, jo 若, nai 奈, etc. are also dicussed.
ER  -