PROVERB    彥語彥

SHORT SENTENCE OFTEN USED USED by ALL FOR EXPRESSING an ACCEPTED TRUTH OR COMMON OPINION.
SAYINGADAGESAWMAXIMAXIOMMOTTOBON MOTAPHORISMAPOPHTHEGMEPIGRAMGNOMEDICTUMPRECEPTWORDS OF WISDOMRhPAROIMION
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general specific term for a proverb or common saying is yán 諺. 2. Yǔ 語 regularly refers to popular current sayings. 3. Yán 言 refers to bon-mots, proverbs and sayings of any kind, including attributed maxims by philosophers and the like.
Modern Chinese Criteria
諺語 諺 成語 俚語 習用語 歇後語 套語 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • SENTENCE　SPEAK>SPEECH COMMUNICATING a COMPLETE THOUGHT.??? (anc: 13/0, child: 3)
  • SPEAK　ACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z. (anc: 12/0, child: 32)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 721

  • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 453

    ADAGIUM enunciatio rei notae, aliud simile minus notum apte indigitans. Concurrunt ergo hic

    1. res quam dicit.

    2. res qvam intelligit and intelligi vult.

    3. Communis earum ratio, propter communem ideam ad qvam spectant.

    Axioms:

    1. Adagia surgunt e rebus notis (si ex historicis explicanture)

    2. Applicanturqve ad minus notas sed similes.

    3. Quo major inter rem expressam et intellectam similitudo, eo adagium elegantius.

  • Dictionnaire des Lumieres ( DELON 1997) p. 918-920

  • 中國人新論。從民諺語看民心 Zhongguoren xinlu - Cong min yanyu dan minxin ( LI QINGSHAN 1996) p.

    This is a very fine general survey of Chinese folk wisdom, in all its contradictory richness.

  • International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography ( MIEDER 1982) p.

  • International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement I (1800-1981) ( MIEDER 1990) p.

  • International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement II (1982-1991) ( MIEDER 1993) p.

  • International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement III (1990-2000). ( MIEDER 2001) p.

  • Sprichwörter-Bibliographie ( MOLL 1958) p.

  • Chinese Religion Seen Through the Proverb ( PLOPPER 1935) p.

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 3.2175

  • Thesaurus proverbiorum medii aevi ( SINGER 1995) p.

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

    PARABLES AND PROVERBS

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO. 41

  • From Proverb to Folk-Tale. Notes on the General Theory of Cliché ( PERMYAKOV 1979) p.

  • Towards an International Type-System of Proverbs ( KUUSI 1972) p.

    • Words (12 items)

    言  yán OC: ŋan MC: ŋi̯ɐn 50 Attributions

    Yán 言 refers to bon-mots, proverbs and sayings of any kind, including attributed maxims by philosophers and the like.

      Word relations
    • Epithet: 當/TRUE Dāng 當 (ant. guò 過 "wrong") refers prototypically to what fits the facts and does not deviate.

      Syntactic words
    • nabtextsaying, memorable saying; sometimes: proverbial saying, popular saying; bon-mot, dict-on
    語  yǔ OC: ŋaʔ MC: ŋi̯ɤ 23 Attributions

    Yǔ 語 regularly refers to popular current sayings.

      Syntactic words
    • nabtextproverb; sometimes also attributed to a place 宋人語曰
    諺  yàn OC: ŋrans MC: ŋiɛn 17 Attributions

    The general specific term for a proverb or common saying is yán 諺.

      Syntactic words
    • nabtext諺云 "as the proverb has it" proverb
    鄙諺  bǐ yàn OC: prɯʔ ŋrans MC: pi ŋiɛn 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPpopular saying, popular proverb
    里語  lǐ yǔ MC: liX ngjoX OC: ɡ-rɯʔ ŋaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPlocal current proverbCH
    野語  yě yǔ MC: dzyoX ngjoX OC: laʔ ŋaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPpopular proverbCH
    古語  gǔ yǔ MC: kuX ngjoX OC: kaaʔ ŋaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabtextold sayingCH
    名通  míng tōng MC: mjieng thuwng OC: meŋ kh-looŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabfamous saying of general importanceDS
    夏語  xià yǔ MC: haeH ngjoX OC: ɡraas ŋaʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPproverb from Xia timesCH
    夏諺  xià yàn MC: haeX ngjenH OC: ɡraaʔ ŋrans 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPproverb from Xia timesCH
    俗語  sú yǔ OC: sɢloɡ ŋaʔ MC: zi̯ok ŋi̯ɤ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPcommon saying
    言語  yán yǔ OC: ŋan ŋaʔ MC: ŋi̯ɐn ŋi̯ɤ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words