《祖庭事苑》词语考辨三则

Textual Research on Three Words in Zu Ting Shi Yuan

《祖庭事苑》是北宋睦庵善卿编写的研究禅宗语录语词的著作。该书辨形释义精允,发前人所未发,但百密一疏,其对一些疑难词语的解释需作进一步考辨。本文举出三则予以考释:“特石”非“大石”义,当为“硬石、顽石”义;“韩情”“韩卢”义同为“黑狗”,而“韩情”或为“韩青”之假借,“韩青”为“韩卢”之异名;“棬(圈)挛”为“圆圈、圈套”义,从词源来看,“棬(圈)挛”当是由“圈”读音向后拉长形成的叠韵联绵词。

Zu Ting Shi Yuan is a book written by Shanqing in the Northern Song Dynasty,which studies the quotations of Zen Buddhism.The book is accurate in its interpretation,with explanation of what was not explained by the predecessors.However,its explanation of some diffi cult words needs to be further examined.This article lists three words of that kind:te shi(特石),not referring to a big stone,should rather be regarded as a hard stone;han qing(韩情)and han lu(韩卢)have the same meanings as a black dog,while han qing(韩情)is the guise of han qing(韩青),and han qing(韩青)and han lu(韩卢)refer to the same breed of dogs;quan luan(棬挛/圈挛)means round and snare.From the perspective of etymology,quan luan(棬挛/圈挛)should be a word with overlapping vowels formed after the syllable of quan(圈)becomes longer.