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

頑

玩

Trinkets, or gems for playing with; to toy or play with; to test, to try; valuable, rare; fine.
kó-ngẃn;

bric-a-brac.
ngẃn khì;

valuable articles such as rare vases, pots or fine porcelain.
ngŵn huap;

to despise the laws.
ngẃn i kâi bī;

try its flavour.
îu-ngẃn;

to ramble for recreation.

元

The commencement; the first cause; the head; the principal; the eldest; original; primary; among Tauists a vast period of time like a geological epoch.
ngŵn-nî;

the first year of a reign.
cí kâi hûang-tì kói-ngŵn cò sĭm-mûeh?

What is the style of the reign of this monarch?
ngŵn-khì put cok;

his constitution is not strong.
sam ngŵn kîp tĭ;

the three senior graduates.
ngŵn-sio-coih;

the fifteenth of the first month.
ngŵn chîo;

the Original or Mongol dynasty: it swayed China and Central Asia from A. D. 1278 to 1369.
ngŵn-tàng;

New Year’s day.

源

A fountain, source, or origin.
cúi ngŵn;

a fountain.
ngŵn thâu;

the source.
i kâi kṳn-ngŵn sĭ chông tī-kò̤ lâi kâi?

Whence does it originate?
cîah cúi cū sṳ tîeh cúi-ngŵn;

in drinking remember the fountain.
khoi cúi kâi ngŵn-thâu sĭ tŏ tī kò̤?

Where is the source of this river?
hô̤ ngŵn;

the source of a stream.
châi ngŵn kún-kún;

an ever welling fountain.
cúi-kâi ngŵn-cûaⁿ kún-kún lâu bŏi lío;

the spring wells inexhaustibly from its source.
tī tîeh i kâi pēⁿ cìaⁿ ŏi tn̆g kṳn;

if the source of the disease is reached, it may be radically cured.

原

Origin; source; beginning; natural; proper; inate; originally, primarily; really; honestly; the original condition; to trace a matter to its source.
chîm-mn̄g i kâi ngŵn-îu;

inquire into the causes.
chêng ŭ khó̤ ngŵn;

there are extenuating circumstances.
ngŵn-1âi jû chṳ́;

it was originally like this.
tong-ngŵn;

China.
úa ngŵn bô̤ sĭeⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

I did not originally think of so doing.
mûeh kui ngŵn cú;

the goods revert to their original owner.
ngŵn chêng tīaⁿ cŭe;

search out the facts, and condemn the wrong-doer accordingly.
i-ngŵn sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ khì;

it was originally built in that style.
ngŵn īeⁿ;

the original style.
ngŵn khòi;

the original deed.
kha, thàu lío ŏi hôk ngŵn a bŏi?

Will the feet on being unbound resume their original shape?
ngŵn pńg si jîeh cōi?

What capital had he to start with?
ngŵn ngṳ̂n siu hûe;

got back the sum originally paid out.
ngŵn-cá sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

that is the way it was at first.
ngŵn-kū sĭ cía ĭeⁿ;

in the beginning it was like this.
ngŵn lō tńg lâi;

returned by the same route.
chūe chut i kâi kṳn-ngŵn;

search out its origin.
i i-kū tŏ̤ ngŵn ūi tīu;

he lives in the place where he used to live.
ngŵn nâng;

the same person who did it before.

顏

The countenance; color.
chēng kú-kú ngŵn-sek bŏi pìⁿ;

the color will not change, no matter how long it is worn.
bô̤ ngŵn hó̤ sie kìⁿ;

have not the face to call on him.
hô̤h hwt, thông ngŵn;

hoary hair, and a youthful face.

願

To desire; to hope; a preference; the object of desire.
sĭ i ka-kī chêng ngw̆n kâi, a sĭ lṳ́ míen-kíang i kâi?

Did he do it voluntarily or did you constrain him?
sĭ i kam-ngw̆n cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

he is willing to have it thus.
thiaⁿ tîeh ngw̆n sì;

when he heard it, he thought he would rather die.
ka-kī cṳ̆ ngw̆n cò̤;

did it of his own free will.
jû ā sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa kâi ngw̆n cū cok;

if that is the way it is to be, my desires are satisfied.
sĭ úa ngw̆n kâi;

it is what I desired.
i cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ chêng, m̄ ngw̆n;

he does it very unwillingly.
bô̤ cêk nâng ngw̆n;

no one was willing.
sĭ i kâi sim só̤ ngw̆n;

it is what his heart desires.
ngŵn kio i tam-sêng;

is willing to guarantee it.

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