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custom for a four month old baby whereby the grandmother on the mother's side presents cookies strung on a red string and hung around the neck of the baby so that the cookies can absorb the excess salvia that the mouth of a recently born baby produces

嬰兒停止流涎

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siunoa 🗣 (u: siw'noa) 收瀾 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一種民間習俗 。 在嬰兒出生滿四個月時 ， 外婆家會贈送 「 收瀾餅 」 ( siu - nuā - piánn ) ， 用紅絲線串綁起來 ， 掛在嬰兒胸前 ， 表示幫嬰兒收口水 ， 使嬰兒日後不會再那麼容易流口水 。

Siunoa siulixli, menii ciøf siøfti. 🗣 (u: Siw'noa siw'li'li, mee'nii ciøf siør'ti.) 收瀾收離離，明年招小弟。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

收口水收得乾淨一點 ， 明年才可以招來一個小弟弟 。 此為收口水時的吉祥話 。

Siunoa siw ho taf, ho lie svef cit ee u laxnphaf./Siunoa siw ho taf, ho lie svy cit ee u laxnphaf. 🗣 (u: Siw'noa siw ho taf, ho lie svef/svy cit ee u lan'phaf.) 收瀾收予焦，予你生一个有𡳞脬 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

此諺是在嬰兒四個月時 ， 大人替嬰兒收口水時所講的吉祥話 ， 希望嬰兒的母親明年將可生一個男孩子 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), and Maryknoll (2001).

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.