E hiao? Boe Hiao?

Discussions on the Hokkien (Minnan) language.
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Post by Guest »

hong wrote:bo is 毛。tang1 is 當。We can invent any word like 甭 in beijing language for 不用。 勿+會=boe
Did you mistype? 毛 means hair. Also, I've heard the mou pronunciation of this character.
hong

Post by hong »

sorry,hakka do say m hiau for 不懂 .晓得=懂事
无 can only has bu。毛= 莫袍切(b+o) is wendu bo along with monn.
maunn and mng for baidu.
I will type out the old text about 毛 means no later.
hong

Post by hong »

above should be moonn.Go to www.kangxizidian.com/index2.php
find 毛 ,in the latter part you will 無曰毛﹐﹐。。。。毛食=無食物。
Guest

Post by Guest »

I see. so it's kind of 假借. It's like Cantonese invented 冇 to mean 無

毛 has nasal reading?? :shock:
Andrew

Post by Andrew »

All words starting with m- and n- have nasal endings, just as no words starting with b- and l- have nasal endings.
hong

Post by hong »

It is not 假借 but it is 俗語﹐maybe later minnan used it as a regular word.河朔 means 黃河以北的地方。
moonn and maunn are called nasal vowel ,see www.hqpin.com
www.nknu.edu.tw/~hakka/chung/das/mora.pdf
hong

Post by hong »

Andrew wrote:All words starting with m- and n- have nasal endings, just as no words starting with b- and l- have nasal endings.
I don't know what Andrew trying to say but n,ng,m will surely have ann,oonn(nasal vowel) only.
n,ng,m cannot ended up with m,n,ng at the back.
Andrew

Post by Andrew »

Yes, I meant they have no nasalised vowel endings
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