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

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典

• To mortgage.

• tóiⁿ châng;

  to mortgage a field.

• tóiⁿ chù;

  mortgage a house.

• cẃn tóiⁿ;

  to sub-mortgage.

第

• A consecutive rank or place; placed before numbers it forms the ordinal; to grade; to arrange in a series.

• tŏiⁿ it, tŏiⁿ jī, tŏiⁿ saⁿ;

  first, second, third, or firstly, secondly, thirdly.

• tŏiⁿ it mîaⁿ;

  the name at the head of the list.

• i pâi tŏ̤ tŏiⁿ kúi kò̤?

  What is its order in the series?

• lîet chṳ̀ tŏiⁿ-lîet hó̤ lío;

  the place which each is to occupy in the series is already assigned.

• tŏiⁿ kúi hō̤?

  Of what grade is it?

• lîet téng tŏiⁿ;

  ranged in the higest rank.

• ŭ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng kio bô̤ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng m̄ tâng;

  those who had a standing in the literary ranks before entering into public life, are unlike those who had not such a standing.

閾

• The threshold or sill of a door.

• m̂ng tŏiⁿ m̄ hó̤ khĭa;

  do not stand on the door sill.

• tōa ke mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

  a broad sill.

• pak tīo mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

  to take away the door sill.

• huah mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

  step over the door sill.

• cîhe mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

  stone threshold.

• i peh mn̂g tŏiⁿ peh m̄ kùe;

  he cannot get over the sill.

佃

• Tenants; field hands.

• tŏiⁿ hŏ;

  tenants.

• châng tŏiⁿ;

  lessees of land.

• hng tŏiⁿ;

  the lessee of a garden.

• chù tŏiⁿ;

  the tenant of a house.

• phò tŏiⁿ;

  the one who rents and occupies a shop.

• tŏiⁿ sĭ tī-tîang?

  Who is the tenant?

• hóⁿ tŏiⁿ;

  a masterful tenant.

• tío tŏiⁿ;

  eject a tenant.

• hŭo tŏiⁿ;

  give information to tenants of a change of landlords.

• kú tŏiⁿ sêng cieh;

  and old tenant becomes an old settler.

靛

• Indigo, or any of the blue dyes found in China.

• cheⁿ-tōiⁿ sĭ cheⁿ cò̤ kâi;

  indigo is made from the indigo plant.

• îeⁿ tōiⁿ;

  prussian blue.

• lâm tōiⁿ;

  indigo blue.

• tōiⁿ kng;

  a blue dye-pot.

• tōiⁿ hue;

  the indigo as it floats on the liquor.

• tōiⁿ tái;

  dregs in the bottom of the indigo vats.

• cheⁿ cìm tŏ̤ hâk tói, àu kú, cū cò̤ tōiⁿ;

  the indigo plant, leaves and stalks, after being put into lime water and long soaked, becomes indigo.

• tōiⁿ tháng;

  the vats in which indigo is made.

殿

• A high and grand hall; a palace; the hall of audience; a main building in a temple.

• cêk cō̤ keng-tōiⁿ; kim lŵn tōiⁿ;

  a royal palace.

• thài-cṳ́ ûang-îa cheng-cò̤ tōiⁿ-ĕ;

  crown princes are address as “Your Highness.”

• tōa tōiⁿ; cìaⁿ tōiⁿ;

  the main building in a temple.

• côiⁿ tōiⁿ, ău tōiⁿ, phien tōiⁿ;

  the building in the front, at the back, or on the side, in a temple.

堅

• Dense; compact; sound; solid; firm; hard; concrete; lasting.

• cí īeⁿ pò ío tōiⁿ;

  this sort of cloth wears better.

• tōiⁿ châ;

  hard wood.

• cía sam tōiⁿ, hía sam phàⁿ;

  this deal is of compact fiber, while that is light and porous.

• tōiⁿ kùe thih;

  more durable than iron.

• kàⁿ-bó̤ phû būe kàu, khah tōiⁿ;

  the yeast has not fermented in it sufficiently, and it is too heavy.

• cí khí cîeh tōiⁿ căi;

  this sort of stone is very hard.

• chîeⁿ ceng lâi tōiⁿ-tōiⁿ;

  the wall is pounded very hard.

• i kâi chù khí lâi bŏi tōiⁿ;

  his house is not strongly built.