Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/gueh

by Adele Marion Fielde

gûeh

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• Moon; month; monthly.

gûeh-nîe;

the moon.

gûeh-bâi;

the crescent moon.

gûeh chut;

the moon rises.

gûeh lô̤h;

the moon sets.

gûeh khih;

the moon wanes.

gûeh îⁿ;

the moon waxes.

gûeh sîh;

an eclipse of the moon.

gûeh hôk îⁿ;

the eclipse ceases.

kìu gûeh;

ceremonies to preserve the moon during an eclipse.

cí kâi gûeh tōa a sòi?

Has this month thirty days or only twenty-nine?

cêk nî câp-jī kâi gûeh;

one year is twelve months.

saⁿ nî kâi jūn gûeh;

there is an intercalary month once in three years.

gûeh-gûeh ŭ nâng lâi;

some one comes every month.

àng gûeh sǹg-sìo;

settle accounts monthly.

co cîⁿ sĭ lŭn gûeh a sĭ lŭn nî kâi?

Is the rent paid by the month or by the year?

gûeh kng căi;

the moonlight is very bright.

ŭ gûeh;

there is a moon.

thóiⁿ-kìⁿ gûeh-hûa;

see the halo around the moon.

gûeh phek;

the dark body of the moon.

gûeh thâu, gûeh pùaⁿ, gûeh búe;

the first, the middle, and the end of the month.

hó̤ gûeh sek;

bright moonlight.

cīeⁿ kâi gûeh;

last month.

cīeⁿ saⁿ kâi gûeh;

three months ago.

cí kâi gûeh;

this month.

ĕ kâi gûeh;

next month.

ke nŏ̤ kâi gûeh;

in two months more.

kâi gūa gûeh;

over a month.

kâi gūa-gūa gûeh;

a good deal more than a month.

côiⁿ kâi gûeh;

month before last.

cêk khùi saⁿ kâi gûeh;

one season is three months.

kîaⁿ gûeh-keng;

to menstruate.

kàu gûeh lío;

to come to the full time.

kùe gûeh lío;

to pass the expected time for confinement.

gûeh sìn, gûeh cúi, gûeh sṳ̄;

the menses.

pĭ gûeh;

suppression of the menses.

cò̤ múaⁿ gûeh;

to receive congratulations a month after childbirth.

hŵn-lío gûeh cháu cíⁿ;

still irregular in the monthly periods.

cí kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ ío cíⁿ gûeh, hṳ́ kâi ío sek gûeh;

this infant is still younger than that one.

kâi lâng gûeh;

a little over a month.

kâi chun gûeh; kâi chut gûeh;

more than a month.

gûeh-siaⁿ cē kàu àiⁿ sǹg-sìo;

when the month is up we will settle the accounts.

chiu-káu jī-câp mêⁿ, gûeh cĭeⁿ gûeh lôh jī saⁿ keⁿ;

on the ninth and the twentieth of the month, the moon rises and sets in the second and third watches.

gûeh píaⁿ, gûeh ko̤;

cakes made to use in worship at the full of the eighth moon.

poih gûeh câp-ngŏ kìe-cò̤ tong-chiu coih;

the middle of the eighth month is called the festival of the middle of autumn.

ciaⁿ gûeh câp-ngŏ mêⁿ kìe-cò̤ ngŵn-sio mêⁿ;

the fifteenth night of first month is called the night of the first full moon.

lâi ŭ sì kâi gûeh;

came four months ago.

bói lâi ŭ ngŏ kâi gûeh kú;

bought it five months ago.

soiⁿ lâk kâi gûeh;

six months before.

chit kâi gûeh côiⁿ;

seven months beforehand.

múiⁿ gûeh;

every month.

jît gûeh ô̤;

a smooth bivalve, red on one side and yellow on the other.

gûeh mêⁿ; gûeh kng mêⁿ;

moonlight nights.

kang-hu sĭ lŭn gûeh a sĭ lŭn jît?

Is the work done by the day or by the month?