89. 高曾祖

Kao 1 tseng 1 tsu 3

High add ancestor

Great great grandfather, great grandfather, grandfather, 

Kao is used of height in both material and immaterial senses. It is supposed to present to the eye the semblance of looking up from a terrace or belvidere, and is here an adjective qualifying tsu ancestor understood. See line 215. 

Tseng is composed of 八 pa to divide (line 88) above, and 曰yueh to speak (line 57) below, a middle portion which is said to be the phonetic. It is defined as a stretcher-out of language, from which we can understand its sense of past, finished, especially as applied to time, thus imparting a tense- value to verbs. With this meaning it is now read ts'eng2, while read tseng1 as above it means to add to, and here qualifies another tsu, understood. It is also a common surname (line 128), and is now classed under radical yueh.

 

Tsu is composed of 示 shih, which is supposed to represent divine commands sent down from heaven, and 且 ch'ieh, which originally meant to set forth in sacrifice, q.d. worship of ancestors (see line 274). [The line runs, High-ancestor, add-ancestor, and ancestor, the last of which is here narrowed down to grandfather, in colloquial 祖父 tsu fu. 

90. 父而身

fu4 erh2  shen1

Father and body

father and self, 

 

Fu see line 18. 

Erh see line 45. 

Shen is regarded as a picture of the human body. It is also used in the senses of I, self. 

91. 身而子

Shen1 erh2 tzu3

Body and son

self and son, 

Shen see line 90. 

Erh see line 45. 

Tzu see line 11. 

92. 子而孫

Tzu3 erh2 sun 1 

Son and grandson 

son and grandson,

 

Tzu see line 11.