漣漪

Rebracketing of 漣猗 (OC *ren qral, “ripple + exclamatory particle”) in a verse of the Classic of Poetry, poem 112 (《詩經·魏風·伐檀》), reinterpreted as if it is a lianmianci (unanalysable disyllabic morpheme) (Hu, 2013):

坎坎伐檀兮，寘之河之干兮，河水清且漣猗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

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坎坎伐檀兮，寘之河之干兮，河水清且涟猗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Kǎnkǎn fá tán xī, zhì zhī hé zhī gān xī, héshuǐ qīng qiě lián yī. [Pinyin]

Kan-kan go his blows on the sandal trees,
And he places what he hews on the river's bank,
Whose waters flow clear and rippling.

The character 漪 (yī) with the component meaning water 氵 is not seen elsewhere in pre-Qin texts but appears in Erya（《爾雅》）— the first Chinese dictionary — seemingly quoting the same verse.

漣漪

1. (literary or poetic) ripple

From Middle Chinese 漣漪 (liᴇn ʔˠiᴇ).

• (Tokyo) れんい [réꜜǹ'ì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾẽ̞ɰ̃i]

漣(れん)漪(い) • (ren'i) 

1. ripple

• 漣(さざなみ) (sazanami)