Talk:お母さん

RFV discussion: December 2011–February 2012
Min Nan spelling is unstandardised, no doubt, uses Roman letters or hanzi but does it really use the Japanese spelling as well? What happened to the honorific "o-" in "khà-sàng"? In Japanese the word is pronounced "okāsan". --Anatoli (обсудить) 00:23, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The Romanization khà-sàng is correct (meaning that it is in the Romanization used by Wiktionary). It is obviously a loan word from Japanese that is still commonly used in Taiwanese Min Nan.  To my knowledge, it is not commonly used in this way by Min Nan speakers outside of Taiwan (i.e. PRC etc).  The honorific o- from the original Japanese is not required in Min Nan, although it can be included as well.  I don't recall ever seeing the original Japanese spelling (お母さん) mixed in with written Min Nan (to the extent that Min Nan is written down at all :)  I would say keep khà-sàng with an etymology that explains its origin (from Japanese お母さん), but get ride of the Min Nan tab in お母さん (unless someone can find a couple of attested uses in written Min Nan).  Truth be told, when khà-sàng is written in Chinese characters, it is usually written as 卡桑.  -- A-cai 01:09, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Krun has speedily deleted this, does anyone object? Mglovesfun (talk) 23:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Struck. - -sche (discuss) 04:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

JA etym
@Fish bowl, see also my edit comment from May 2016, and the etym at.

I'm afraid I haven't the time right now to dive in and expand the etym here for. :) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 07:48, 27 June 2022 (UTC)