小学同学莫姓

乌程仔

在杭州大学路小学，同桌是一个莫姓的女孩，长脸，黑黑的，不定是春秋时期吴国铸剑师干将莫邪莫姓亲族的后代。

钱塘知府

莫文蔚

乌程仔

钱塘知府 发表于 2014-5-13 18:48
莫文蔚

和莫文蔚有点像，比她还黑。

Skatinginbc

I think 莫 was a surname of the aboriginal people then.  It means "big, many" (Proto-Austroasiatic *mak, Proto-Thai *ma:k), as in 莫湖 "big lake", whence came the name 太湖 "great lake".  It also constitutes part of the official title 莫敖, the highest official of 楚国 (莫 "big", 敖 "master, sir" 《註》無號諡者，楚皆謂之敖).  The word was borrowed into Old Chinese and showed up in 《莊子·逍遙遊》廣莫之野。《註》莫，大也。

Skatinginbc

The ethnic background of 干將 (i.e., 莫邪's husband) is hard to determine.  古代有干國（also written as 邗), 據說乃周武王姬发之子姬邗叔所建。 周代中叶后, 由徐州南迁临淮, 后再南迁邗城 (扬州), 春秋時被吳國所滅， 干人融入吴，称干吴。 吴王夫差开凿邗沟 (通淮河和长江的运河).  越王禽夫差於干隧 (今蘇州西北).  越灭吴，干吴转为干越。  吴有干地, 故多干姓.  干 as a substitute for 㵎/澗(山夾水也) "ravine, gully" was attested in 《詩·小雅》秩秩斯干.  It was a near synoym of 沟 (干沟) "gouge, channel" and 隧 (干隧) "mountain pass, channel".  In 江東, it often means 澗谷,澗井 (山谷,山凹)  "glen, col, basin" (刘逵: 江东谓山冈閒为‘干’, 建鄴之南有山, 其閒平地, 吏民居之, 故号为‘干’.  宋 王象之: 江东谓山陇之间曰干).  Note the difference in pronunciation between Central Plain dialect 澗  (OC *krānh) and Southern dialect 干 (OC *kān).  The latter was probably influenced by an aboriginal language, perhaps from the verb form *kan "to notch" (e.g., Proto-Austro-Asiatic kVn "to cut", Miao-Yao gen, Proto-Thai: ka:n, Khmer kan'; cf. Proto-Austro-Asiatic *kɔ:ŋ "mountain").  Later, it evolved into 灨 (MC *kɒm, 通作贛) in the 江西 dialect (cf. Proto-Austro-Asiaitc *kom "bowl" ≈ basin).  Since there possibly existed an aboriginal language or languages able to account for the meanings of "notch" (a narrow pass between mountains) and "basin" (a bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land), I am not sure whether 干 and 澗 are related through borrowing or they are actually false cognates.  Anyway, 干將莫邪 could be an interracial couple: a Chinese husband with an aboriginal wife.