Getting angry in Penang Hokkien

[aokh1979]

...I was reading through a Hokkien dictionary yesterday when I found hiong-hiam 兇險, with the meanings "dangerous" and "suddenly" and then I checked 起 and there was 起雄 which meant "to lose one's temper"!...

I demand you to tell us which dictionary you're using. This is so tempting ! Tell me NOW !

[SimL]

If I'm not mistaken, Ah-bin means the little blueish-green one. . I grumbled about the fact that they use "initial+ "rhyme" as the method of listing the characters, instead of simple alphabetical order. I'm quite used to the "initial+ "rhyme" order now, so I withdraw that criticism. I'll see if I can find a reference to it on the Forum today, otherwise, we'll have to wait until Ah-bin looks it up for us

[SimL]

I found the old posting. I think it's this dictionary Ah-bin is referring to:

林宝卿，《闽南方言与古汉语同源词典》2002 Amoy University Press, 28¥- Chinese (simplified with traditional characters in brackets). Good for finding benzi, and the links between Hokkien and Classical Chinese usages. Not very user-friendly in that it arranges by rhyme instead of alphabetically.

BTW, perhaps it's greenish-blue rather than blueish-green .

[Andrew]

This is great - everyone is using the same books! We should collaborate to put together a guide on the web collecting together all the most useful resources we have found: certainly it would be easier than searching this forum.

A.

[aokh1979]

These are all I have...... Bought a few more last 2 months, will add in when I return to Xiamen. It's so good to hang out in Penang for holidays !

《閩南方言與古漢語同源辭典》by 林寶卿
《愛說臺語五千年》by 王華南
《普通話閩南方言常用辭典》by 林寶卿
《廈門方言辭典（現代漢語方言大辭典分卷）》by 李榮
《漳州方言童謠選釋》by 張嘉星
《閩南話教程》by 林寶卿
《臺語漢字讀音辭典》by 許極燉
《華語揣臺語實用華臺語詞彙對照》by 白聆
《閩南方言大辭典》by 周長楫
《閩南話漳腔辭典》by 陳正統
《國臺對照活用辭典》by 吳守禮
《臺灣話智慧》by 方南強
《你不可不知的臺語常識（逗趣篇）》by 方南強
《新編潮州音字典》by 林倫倫
《English - Penang Hokkien Pocket Dictionary》by Luc de Gijzel
《Penang Hokkien Dialect》by Tan Choon Hoe
《Penang Hokkien Dialect for Penangites and Tourists》by Tan Choon Hoe
《Loghat Hokkien Pulau Pinang》by Tan Choon Hoe

[Ah-bin]

Actually It's the 閩南方言常用詞小詞典 basically it's just a condensed version of the 閩南方言大辭典by 周長楫,
so I think it'll have all the same things in it and more.

There's another one I have seen in the Amoy University library - the 新加坡闽南话词典 - I'd love to get hold of a copy.

[SimL]

This is a really strange posting! This is just a repeat of Ah-bin's text from 01 April 2010, slightly edited to remove some parts!