Gao You

Gao You 高誘 was a scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty. He wrote commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals and Mencius.[1] He is also the author of the earliest commentary to the Annals of Lü Buwei.

Baxter & Sagart (2014: 265) take the following remarks from his commentary on the Annals of Lü Buwei as evidence of final *-r in the word 殷.

今兖州人謂殷氏皆曰衣
Nowadays the people of Yǎnzhōu 兖州 all pronounce the family name 殷 Yīn [*ʔər] as 衣 Yī [*ʔ(r)əj]”
— Gao You, Commentary on Lüshi Chunqiu

References

Baxter, William H. (1992). A Handbook of Old Tibetan phonology. Berlin: Mouton.

Baxter, William H. and Laurent Sagart (2014). Old Chinese: A new Reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  1. ↑ Baxter 1992: 295


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