Talk:samyo

Etymology

@Mlgc1998 Checking Chan-Yap, it's suggested etymology I see on p. 135 is 散藥. Is 糝藥粉 your own correction? --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 13:41, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser Oh, I can't remember if the 3rd character there was something I either found around here before or read or was told about it before. I think I must've seen "散" in that paper and then was confused why the pronunciation didn't match but knew this was still indeed a term very much used in my family, so I think I must've asked around about it if it was a character pairing that made sense on it's own, then was told that "sám io̍h-hún" made more sense, but not sure if I specifically read “to sprinkle medicinal powder” somewhere. The descriptions in the Chan-Yap paper seemed to match that it was that kind of medicine since it was about sprinkling it over and had to do with a smell, which I think the sort of chinese pharmacies in somewhere like in Binondo sold like those Prickly Heat kind of powders or there was traditional chinese medicine that had a big smell before usually was like some powdered ones, like cuz they haven't put the powdered traditional chinese medicine in capsules yet and offered u to just take it like that to mix in some form of drink instead than pay them to manually scoop into capsules. Mlgc1998 (talk) 14:39, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser I saw a few pages in the Chan-Yap paper while skimming through it. I guess at page 110, she does mention:

"5. samyo - Hok. sám-iôq-hùn 'to sprinkle medicinal powder'; Tag. 'fragrance, pleasant or agreeable smell'", then around page 114-115 and page 50, there's also some talk about the "in-" in inso, impo and ingkong, where she also thought that it meant "his". I can't remember if I got the idea from these pages years ago. Mlgc1998 (talk) 11:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)