果然匯＆芝山岩半日遊Half-day tour of Guoranhui & Zhishan Rock2025／12／11
濫也與蘭雅
閒來無事，與高中同窗相約聚餐，餐後往芝山岩登高散步兼消食，天母是台灣退休族首選住宅區，與東區西門町的繁華熱鬧大異其趣。冬天午後，氣候晴朗，天母街道安靜溫暖，閒適安逸，高樓林立，一片富足。
數十年前，天母地區原是「雨水氾濫之地」，簡曰「濫也lam-ia」，白話文音譯為「蘭雅nan-ya」。
台灣地區不知名小流溪，統稱約「溪也khe-ia」，「也-ia」本為名詞之後的詞綴，無義，五四運動之後白話文音譯閩南語，「也-ia」成為詞組。「濫也lam-ia」譯為「蘭雅lan-ya」僅僅蒼海之一粟。
新竹地區有一條不知名小流溪，當地人稱「溪也khe-ia」，後來白話文音譯為「客雅kheh-ia-」，與天母地區「濫也lam-ia」譯為「蘭雅lan-ya」異曲同工。
語文演化就是如此蒼海桑田，不勝唏噓。
sofia（2025/December/12）
《彙音寶鑑lam7》P370濫/柳七甘，氾濫水延漫也
Lam-ia＆nan-ya
With nothing to do, I met up with my high school classmates for a meal. Afterwards, we went hiking and strolling around Zhishan Rock to digest our food. Tianmu is a top residential area for retirees in Taiwan, quite different from the bustling Ximending in the East District. On a sunny winter afternoon, the streets of Tianmu were quiet, warm, and peaceful, lined with high-rise buildings, exuding an air of affluence.
Decades ago, the Tianmu area was a “land of abundant rain”, which was simply called “lam-ia” and transliterated into Cantonese as “nan-ya”.
Unknown streams in Taiwan are collectively called “khe-ia”. “也-ia” was originally a noun suffix with no meaning. After the May Fourth Movement, when the vernacular was transliterated into Hokkien, “也-ia” became a phrase. “Lan-ia” is translated as “lan-ya”, which is just a drop in the ocean.
There is an unnamed stream in the Hsinchu area, which the locals call “溪也 khe-ia”. Later, it was transliterated into Mandarin as “客雅 kheh-ia-“, which is similar to the transliteration of “濫也 lam-ia” for “蘭雅nan-ya ” in the Tianmu area.
The evolution of language is truly a dramatic and poignant process.