More on the Etymology of 露

Henshall separates 露 into two parts:

• 雨 means “rain,” but here it means “rainlike.”
• 路 means “road” but acts phonetically here to express “round” and “tread.”

So dewdrops are round, rainlike objects on which one treads.

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