Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kwt

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kwt

  • kwt447154
  • To decide; to settle; decidedly.
i íⁿ-keng kwt-ì àiⁿ cò̤;
he has already decided that he will do it.
hṳ́ kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ ŭ cêk kwt a būe ŭ?
Is that matter decided yet or not?
i kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ kúaⁿ-kwt;
he acts in an undecided way.
i a-bó̤ cò̤ sū kèng kwt-tẁn;
his mother acts with greater decision.
i hŵn-lío chî gî, būe kwt;
he still delays and doubts, and is not yet decided about it.
kwt-kwt m̄ hù ieh cū sĭ;
certainly will not fail to carry out the contract.
kwt put cîah ngân;
will positively not retract.
kwt-tīaⁿ ŏi tit sêng;
certainly may succeed.
  • kwt4471494
  • Parting or dying words; an art, a rule; a mystery, occult doctrines, a trick in legerdemain; hidden; abstruse.
tit tîeh i kâi pì-kwt;
got the secret of it, (as of a trade).
kháu kwt;
gibberish.
i kâi kwt-sût cōi;
they have many superstitious observances.
mih īeⁿ sṳ̄ ā-sĭ tit kwt cū kōi cò̤;
anything is easily done if you can get at the art of doing it.
  • kwt469646
  • To inclose in a bundle; to envelop; to include; to comprehend.
kai-kwt;
to contain; to embrace.
pau-kwt;
to include.
cí kù ūe pau-kwt thong cieⁿ kâi ì-sṳ̀;
this sentence contains the gist of the whole chapter.
pât nâng tàⁿ cōi-cōi hŵn-lío m̄ cheng-chó̤, khṳt i tàⁿ cò̤ nŏ̤ kù cū kai-kwt khṳ̀;
other people talk a great deal and still do not express what he will say in two sentences.