Hi Bangulzai:
Once more, MANY THANKS. You have helped me so much in this
"project" of mine. I would never have been able to get to this
level of understanding of the lectures without your help (and the
help of Chew Bakar and the Minnan Forummers too, of course).
Here are some responses.
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regarding
khuaN-ui, i still cannot accept
看位.
位 in the
strictest sense should be "seat" or "space to sit". if the speaker
said khuaN3-sO2-cai7 or
khuaN3-mih8-kiaN7 is fine, but I still cannot
figure out what is khuaN-ui
I agree with you 100%. With sO-cai or mih-kiaN,
it does sound so much more natural. So, we have no way of knowing
what’s meant here. Perhaps I’ll write to the website and ask them!
I don’t want to bother them until I have finished all my analysis,
and then the last few points perhaps I’ll ask
them.
It did occur to me that perhaps “KhuaN-Ui” is a
place, or a village, or something, but this doesn’t seem very
likely either. If any readers are from around Ipoh, and know of
such a place, please let us know!
>> 斗骹手
tau3-kha1-chiu2 in
Singapore
Indeed, this is the most common term in Penang
too, I just forgot it! Thanks a lot!
Thank you for your kind words about my
analysis of sin-pu. I was embarrassed that 2 days after I expressed
my doubt about 新, I found
新妇 in my
Mandarin-English dictionary, with the meaning “bride”, which is
very close to “daughter-in-law”. That doesn’t change the fact that
I don’t find it particularly logical to use新 for daughter-in-law,
for the reasons I gave. In contrast, it does make a lot of sense
for Hokkien 新娘, because there it
means “bride”, and a “new(ly-married)-girl” is of course a
“bride”.
>> regarding
na-mo-ben-si-si-jiao-mo-ni-fo,
it's
>>
南無本師釋迦牟尼佛 na2-mo2-ben3-shi1-shi4-jia1-mou2-ni2-fo2
Wow! Thanks for
this. I suppose I should have asked what it means at the time, but
I forgot. I’ve now worked out that 釋迦牟尼佛 is “Sakyamuni
Buddha”, and 本師
is “original teacher” I guess, but what does
南無 mean in
this case?
#) 3 additional
questions
“seh8”:
“to go around in a circle”, as in “iN5-iN5-seh8”. How is it written
in characters?
“thai2-ko1”: “leprosy”. How is it written in
characters?
“ia-sO-kau”:
does this mean any form of Christianity, or Protestantism
specifically? My Mandarin-English dictionary translates
耶穌教 as
Protestantism, but I wonder if that specialized meaning is also the
case in Hokkien, and (even if it is) whether that distinction is
made by most Hokkien speakers.
