Study On Archaic Words In Nanyang Dialect

LiRong believed that language is the products of history, ancient languages always reserves many ancient ingredients. Many archaic words don't generally use except in certain dialects. One of the purpose of the study of the Chinese dialects archaic words is explores the origin. This kind of work which based on research the source of language had already appeared as early as Chinese traditional philology period, and had achieved fruitful achievements. Since the 1980's, with the increased levels of language study, Nanyang dialect research had entered a period of all-round development, and the research on archaic words had also made some progress. But overall the study of Nanyang dialect archaic words exist some problems such as limited number of archaic words, difference of etymological note, short of deepgoing general study and so on.Based on this, this paper made a special study on archaic words in Nanyang dialect and divid these words into two categories. One kind is that compared with mandarin words have the same appearance, but the meanings are different. This kind of words'meanings in mandarin also exist in the nanyang dialect, but in addition, Nanyang dialect also keep some ancient meanings of these words which already not be used in mandarin. This section study 39 single, dual and even more syllables archaic words such as "mix", "hinder", "jet" etc. The other kind is the archaic words with definite pronunciations but uncertain glyphs or have pronunciations but no glyphs in Nanyang dialect. for instance the words "pie(æ’‡)","pi((?))","pi((?))"etc.26 archaic word of single and double syllables that this section research. The use frequency of this kind of words is not too high, glyphs are also relatively rare, and commonly they must through reserching basic charaeters to find out. Simultaneously this article try to examine the expressions of these words in other dialects and pointed out some errors and omissions phenomenon in contemporary large-scale dictionaries when they deal with some archaic words.