撒出去的那個動作：散開本身
這一組對應畫面裡「手一鬆、種子飛出去」的那個瞬間，字指的是散開這件事，不是散開之後的人或地方。
noun · C1
The Diaspora is the movement of the Jewish people away from ancient Palestine into other countries, where they settled and lived far from that homeland.
（猶太人的）大離散
核心畫面
Picture a farmer by hand: the fist opens and the grain flies out in every direction at once, landing far from where it started — and still growing there. That is the picture inside the Greek word this comes from, dia- (across, in all directions) plus speiro (to ). Hold that one image and the whole word opens up: the throwing itself, the seed once it has landed, and the wide ground it landed on.
「diaspora」可以想成農夫撒種子的那一瞬間：手一鬆，種子往四面八方飛出去，落在離原地很遠的土裡，卻還是各自長了…更多收起
「diaspora」可以想成農夫撒種子的那一瞬間：手一鬆，種子往四面八方飛出去，落在離原地很遠的土裡，卻還是各自長了起來。這個字的三種用法，剛好就是這個畫面的三個部分——撒出去的那個動作、落地之後的那些種子、以及它們落下的那一整片土地。From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives diaspora from Ancient Greek diaspora (dispersion), from diaspeiro (to scatter), itself dia- (across, in all directions) + speiro (to sow). The sowing picture is in the word's own parts, which is why the scattering, the scattered people and the far ground all sit comfortably under one image.
依據 Wiktionary，diaspora 來自古希臘文 diasporā（分散），源自 diaspeírō（撒散），由 dia-（往四面八方）加 speírō（播種）組成。播種這個畫面就寫在字的組成裡，所以「散開」「散出去的人」「散落的那片地方」三種意思才能放在同一張圖底下。
Wiktionary entry for diaspora, supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1001097147:24946)
Three branches
落地的那些種子：散出去的人
種子撒出去之後，人們會指著地上長出來的那些苗說「那些就是」。這一支就是把字從動作挪到人身上。
noun · C1
The people themselves: everyone from one nation or culture who now lives away from that homeland, spoken of together as one community.
離散族群；海外同鄉群體
落下的那片土地：故土以外
種子落在哪裡？落在原本那塊田以外的所有地方。這一支把整個字拿來當那片地方用。
noun · C1
All the places outside the homeland where a scattered group lives, taken together as one whole; almost always used in the phrase in the diaspora.
（相對於故土的）海外各地