A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Ko

by Josiah Goddard

Ko.

姑¹

A father's sister; a husband's mother and sisters.

枯¹

Rotten wood; a dead tree; decayed; putrid.

沽¹

Name of a river; to buy; sell; abridge; retrench.

骷¹

Bones of the knee, loins and shoulder.

鴣¹

A partridge.

孤¹

Fatherless; an orphan; alone; destitute; poor.

菰¹

Name of a plant.

觚¹

A wine cup; a rule of law; a title of office.

古²

Ancient; remote ages.

估²

Tax; duty; custom paid to government; to reckon; to value; price.

牯²

A bullock; also the male of swine and dogs.

詁²

To explain; explanations.

酤²

Liquor for drinking; to buy or sell wine.

苟²

If; but; uncertainty; carelessly; illicitly; plants.

耉²

An old person; very old.

股²

The thighs; a branch of a stream; a division of; strong.

皷²鼓²

To beat a drum; strike a sonorous body; to rouse or excite; a drum.

瞽²

Blind; the master of a band of music.

蠱²

Worms in the abdomen; poison; ghost.

靠^-3

To rely on; depend on.

詬^-3

To revile.

垢^3-

Dirt; filth; mire; mud; a disgrace; reproach.

姤^3-

Meeting together; contact; union of the sexes.

冓^3-

To connect together as the beams of a house; one hundred millions.

媾^3-

Love; conjugal union; marriage; sexual intercourse.

搆^3-

To draw; to pull; drag; to plot.

構^3-

Wooden frame of a house; to join together; complete.

篝^3-

A bamboo basket or utensil.

覯^3-

To meet one's eye; to see; to happen; to effect; complete.

購^3-

To buy; to seek to obtain for money.

遘^3-

To meet; occur; happen; to bolt upon accidentally.

僱^3-

To hire; borrow for money.

殼^3-

To stretch a bow; an archer; enough; adequate.

轂^3-

The name of a wheel; a wheel carriage.

够^3-

Much collected together; satisfied; enough.