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sekai
a word from vocabulary
Japanese
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Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
sekai
Original script
世界
LWT meaning(s)
the world
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
se-kai world-world
Age
Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185)
Lexical stratum
kango
Year
9th century
Register
General
Numeric frequency
677.4
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Comments
(818) in 文華秀麗集, Buddhist term, borrowed from Chinese, where it might have been a calque for the Sanskrit term lokhadātu.
Source words
shìjiè
'World'
Chinese
lokhadātu
'World'
Sanskrit
Effect
Coexistence
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Chinese bilingualism [21]
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