In the central dialect, la: ‘candle’ is used. This is also a Chinese borrowing là 蠟 ‘candle/wax’.
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
20th century [20]
(1901–2007)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Comments
The word yáng là 洋蠟 in Chinese consists of two characters yáng ‘foreign’ là ‘wax’. In most Chinese dialects in modern day Chinese, the compound noun used to refer to ‘candle’ is làzhú 蠟燭 ‘candle’, though yáng là 洋蠟 is still used in some dialects.
