本文討論閩南、莆仙、閩東方言「掩埋，埋葬」義語詞⊆tai 的本字問題， 亦即為該方言語詞探尋其在古今漢語的同源詞進行討論，提出⊆tai 的漢語同 源詞即「臺/ 擡」。文中陳列諸多書證：包括古漢語、現代漢語口語詞、現 代方言方言詞本字考釋與「類同引申」；探究閩南、莆仙、閩東方言「掩埋， 埋葬」方言詞語料；提出「本字『臺』，今沿用分別文『擡』」之說；語音 上「擡」與閩南、莆仙、閩東⊆tai 聲母、韻母、聲調對應；「擡」ai 韻母為 閩語蟹攝一等開口白讀韻母。最後，提出建構本文的理論依據：藉由歷史詞 義演變研究的「類同引申」來探究方言詞與漢語同源詞之間的語義聯繫關係。

This paper discusses the problematic dialect word ⊆tai “to bury” of Minnan 閩南, Puxian 莆仙, and Mindong 閩東 dialects. To begin, I explore dialect words found within both Classical Chinese and modern Hanyu and propose that tai is the Hanyu cognate tai/tai ( 臺/ 擡). By employing an ample and varied amount of evidence, including Classical Chinese, the modern vernacular, textual research on the original characters of modern dialects, and “lei tong yinshen 類同引申” (analogous extention), this paper enquires into the corpus of “to bury” of the three dialects and offers the notion “tai 擡 is still distinguished today from the original form of the character tai 臺.” Furthermore, the pronunciation of tai 擡 is homologous with the initial consonant, final, and tone of tai in Minnan, Puxian, and Mindong; the final “ai” of tai 擡 is a vernacular final belonging to xieshe 蟹攝 within Minyu 閩 語. Finally, considering the developing theoretical basis for this paper, one is able to probe the semantic relationship between dialect words and Hanyu cognates by researching the historical evolutions of the meanings of words and derivatives of the same types.