PROVERB 彥語彥
SHORT SENTENCE OFTEN USED USED by ALL FOR EXPRESSING an ACCEPTED TRUTH OR COMMON OPINION.
Hypernym
Old Chinese Criteria
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
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 /
- Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles
(
CASSIN 2004)
p.
721 - De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione
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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
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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
言 yán OC: ŋan MC: ŋi̯ɐn 50 AttributionsWD
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 AttributionsWD
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 AttributionsWD
The general specific term for a proverb or common saying is yán 諺.
- Syntactic words
- nabtextproverb
鄙諺 bǐ yàn OC: prɯʔ ŋrans MC: pi ŋiɛn 1 AttributionWD
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- NPpopular saying, popular proverb
古語 gǔ yǔ MC: kuX ngjoX OC: kaaʔ ŋaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
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- NPabtextold sayingCH
里語 lǐ yǔ MC: liX ngjoX OC: ɡ-rɯʔ ŋaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
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- NPlocal current proverbCH
野語 yě yǔ MC: dzyoX ngjoX OC: laʔ ŋaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
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- NPpopular proverbCH
名通 míng tōng MC: mjieng thuwng OC: meŋ kh-looŋDS 1 AttributionWD
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- NPabfamous saying of general importanceDS
夏諺 xià yàn MC: haeX ngjenH OC: ɡraaʔ ŋransCH 1 AttributionWD
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- NPproverb from Xia timesCH
夏語 xià yǔ MC: haeH ngjoX OC: ɡraas ŋaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
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- NPproverb from Xia timesCH
俗語 sú yǔ OC: sɢloɡ ŋaʔ MC: zi̯ok ŋi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
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- NPcommon saying
言語 yán yǔ OC: ŋan ŋaʔ MC: ŋi̯ɐn ŋi̯ɤ 0 AttributionsWD
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