说“屈戌”

A Study on Quxu(屈戌)

敦煌社会经济文书是唐五代时期口语词汇集中体现的文献之一,对这一类文献所进行的词汇研究具有重要的意义。本文对敦煌社会经济文献中的"屈戌"进行考辨,认为"屈戌"实为"鐍"之缓言,后世有"曲须""羁骨"等变形,常与釕銱(象鼻)搭配使用。经改良后屈戌可用作屏风扇铰,并获得"屈膝"之名,古人不明源流,反以"屈膝"为正。

Much attention has been paid to the lexical study of uncommon words and expressions recurring in Dunhuang documents,which have been deemed to be an important corpus epitomizing the application of oral vocabulary during the Tang and Five Dynasties periods.With the aid of ancient records and dialects from northwest China,this paper offers the conjecture that the disyllable quxu（屈戌） is most likely an extended form of jue（鐍）in pronunciation,with the variants quxu（曲须） or jigu（鸡骨/羁骨） referring to a mechanical part of an ancient lockset fixed on a container.After being improved and applied on folding screens with liaodiao（釕銱）,a kind of hasp and staple used in furniture construction,quxu was renamed quxi（屈膝） because of its resemblance to a bending knee,the similarity of which later led to a misreading of this common but indispensable article.