Vài đóng góp của tự điển Béhaine trong văn hoá ngôn ngữ Việt Nam

Abstract

This article depicts some contributions of father Pigneaux de Béhaine’s dictionary to Vietnamese language and culture. The hand-written copy’s title is Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum which was compiled around 1772 - 1773, later edited slightly and published formally by father JeanLouis Taberd in 1838. Behaine's dictionary entry order is Han/Nom character - chữ quốc ngữ - Latin explanation, it will be abbreviated as TVL in this article. Some original form (in 18^th century) of popular sayings and proverbs are explained in the article: the popular saying giả mù sa mưa was actually giả mù pha mưa in TVL, có công mài sắt có ngày nên kim was chí công mài sắt chầy ngày nên kim, ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây was ăn trái nhớ kẻ trồng cây, con nhà tông không giống lông cũng giống cánh was con công chẳng giống lông thì giống cánh via personalisation process and also chăng was used as negatve marker previously, xà cừ was xa cừ 車 渠 via tone assimilation process, cúng dường was formerly cung dưỡng 供養. Taberd’s edition adds more proverbs and sayings to the original Béhaine’s dictionary such as thương con cho roi cho vọt, ghét con cho ngọt cho bùi, etc. TVL provides valuable and important information in the process of tracing origin of Vietnamese proverbs and word usage, particularly written in Nôm and chữ quốc ngữ formats for a better accuracy.