A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / huah

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• To gape or yawn.

• lṳ́ huah-hì sĭ mâk siap a m̄ sĭ?

  You yawn because you are sleepy do you not?

• i cŏ̤ lío huah-hì huah-hăi: sĭ nâng khùn-kw̆n mâk-siap, a sĭ hun-ngìen?

  Having sat down he keeps yawning: is it from the sleepiness produced by fatigue, or is it because the time for him to take his opium has come?

• thâu huah-hì, thâu chun-lûn;

  yawning and stretching at the same time.

• i tó̤ huah-hì chun-lûn, hía īeⁿ sĭ phî kâi īeⁿ;

  he is yawning and stretching, as if he were tired and sleepy.

• mn̂g-khí-cá huah-hì lío, ĕ-hâi ka-lâuh khṳ̀;

  this morning he yawned and dislocated his jaw.

步

• To stride; to step; to straddle.

• ŏi hûah kùe a bŏi?

  Can you stop across?

• cêk hûah cêk hûah;

  step by step.

• kîaⁿ bô̤ kúi hûah kha cū sng;

  I had walked but a few steps when my legs were tired.

• i kîaⁿ lō tōa-tōa hûah;

  he takes great strides.

• hûah m̄ kùe;

  cannot straddle across it.