英文摘要 |
In this paper, we find the original character of ‘tsuah' in‘tsáu-tsuah'(i.e. lose shape, go out of form) and ‘bô-khah-tsuah'(i.e. useless, in vain) in Taiwanese Southern Min. In the first section, we review how ‘tsáu-tsuah' and ‘bô-khah-tsuah' are written in dictionaries, lyrics and folk readings in Taiwanese Southern Min. Then in section 2, we present a detailed analysis of the potential original character of this‘tsuah' and cite a lot of example sentences and idioms as evidences. In section 3 and section 4, we explain the reason in detail from the aspects of sound correspondence, sound change and semantics, respectively. In the last section, we rethink the reasons why we can find the original character of ‘tsuah' in ‘tsáu-tsuah' and ‘bô-khah-tsuah' in Taiwanese Southern Min. |