Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lwn

by Adele Marion Fielde

lwn

• 煖lẃn643869
• A pleasant warmth; bland; kind.

tit-tîeh jît kâi lẃn-khì;

get warmth from the sun.

cêk ke pá-lẃn, cōi ke ẁn;

when one family is well provided for, many families are discomforted.

nâng-chêng né lẃn;

people’s feelings are changeable.

un-lẃn;

genial.

thiⁿ sî un-lẃn;

the weather is balmy.

• 鸞lŵn57019619
• A fabulous bird, regarded as the embodiment of every grace and beauty; the argus pheasant seems to have furnished the type.

i khìa ki lŵn mô̤ⁿ sìⁿ;

he carried a fan made of the feathers of the argus pheasant.

• 鑾lŵn57016719
• Imperial; royal; a term of respect.

lŵn kè;

the emperor’s carriage or sedan.

lŵn-ngî-ŭe;

the imperial guard.

kim lŵn tōiⁿ;

the imperial palace.

cêng hûe-lŵn a būe?

Has he yet set out on the return journey? (said of His Majesty, or of a god).

• 攣lŵn5616419
• Contracted as by palsy.

khu-lŵn;

bent and unable to straighten itself; stiff and crooked; distorted.

i kâi kha chíu khu-lŵn, sĭ hueh ko kâi mâuⁿ-pēⁿ;

the distortion of his limbs has its origin in the impoverishment of his bood.

• 巒lŵn5704619
• The peaks of a hill; a line of pointed summits.

hṳ́ cêk phài kâi hong-lŵn ngía căi;

that line of mountain peaks is very fine.

i kâi thóiⁿ suaⁿ pit àiⁿ káng-kìu lŵn-thâu;

the geomancer will surely expatiate upon the surrounding peaks.

• 亂lw̆n570512
• Confusion; insurrection; disorder.

tăi lw̃n kṳ hieⁿ, síeⁿ lw̆n kṳ sîaⁿ;

a great commotion in a village, would make but a small one in a city.

tī-tîang káⁿ châk lw̆n?

Who dares stir up insurrection?

lw̆n sì kâi sî-kāu;

in time of sedition.

thiⁿ-ĕ jío-lw̆n;

disorder everywhere.

• 戀lw̄n5616119
• To dote on; to love ardently; to long after.

lw̄n-lw̄n put sía;

cannot tear himself away.

lw̄n-tîeh kū hieⁿ;

strongly attached to his native place.

i lw̄n tîeh bó kíaⁿ, kîaⁿ m̄ khui;

he loves his wife and children and cannot leave them.