Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ngwn

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ngwn

  • 頑ngẃn10381814
  • Thick-headed; mulish.
hṳ́ kò̤ kâi nâng ngẃn căi;
the people there are very stupid.
sît-căi si ngŵn mîu;
are really a set of dunderheads.
  • 玩ngẃn1039964
  • Trinkets, or gems for playing with; to toy or play with; to test, to try; valuable, rare; fine.
kó-ngẃn;
bric-a-brac.
ngẃn khì;
valuable articles such as rare vases, pots or fine porcelain.
ngŵn huap;
to despise the laws.
ngẃn i kâi bī;
try its flavour.
îu-ngẃn;
to ramble for recreation.
  • 元ngŵn1134102
  • The commencement; the first cause; the head; the principal; the eldest; original; primary; among Tauists a vast period of time like a geological epoch.
ngŵn-nî;
the first year of a reign.
cí kâi hûang-tì kói-ngŵn cò sĭm-mûeh?
What is the style of the reign of this monarch?
ngŵn-khì put cok;
his constitution is not strong.
sam ngŵn kîp tĭ;
the three senior graduates.
ngŵn-sio-coih;
the fifteenth of the first month.
ngŵn chîo;
the Original or Mongol dynasty: it swayed China and Central Asia from A. D. 1278 to 1369.
ngŵn-tàng;
New Year's day.


  • 源ngŵn11338510
  • A fountain, source, or origin.
cúi ngŵn;
a fountain.
ngŵn thâu;
the source.
i kâi kṳn-ngŵn sĭ chông tī-kò̤ lâi kâi?
Whence does it originate?
cîah cúi cū sṳ tîeh cúi-ngŵn;
in drinking remember the fountain.
khoi cúi kâi ngŵn-thâu sĭ tŏ tī kò̤?
Where is the source of this river?
hô̤ ngŵn;
the source of a stream.
châi ngŵn kún-kún;
an ever welling fountain.
cúi-kâi ngŵn-cûaⁿ kún-kún lâu bŏi lío;
the spring wells inexhaustibly from its source.
tī tîeh i kâi pēⁿ cìaⁿ ŏi tn̆g kṳn;
if the source of the disease is reached, it may be radically cured.
  • 原ngŵn1133278
  • Origin; source; beginning; natural; proper; inate; originally, primarily; really; honestly; the original condition; to trace a matter to its source.
chîm-mn̄g i kâi ngŵn-îu;
inquire into the causes.
chêng ŭ khó̤ ngŵn;
there are extenuating circumstances.
ngŵn-1âi jû chṳ́;
it was originally like this.
tong-ngŵn;
China.
úa ngŵn bô̤ sĭeⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
I did not originally think of so doing.
mûeh kui ngŵn cú;
the goods revert to their original owner.
ngŵn chêng tīaⁿ cŭe;
search out the facts, and condemn the wrong-doer accordingly.
i-ngŵn sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ khì;
it was originally built in that style.
ngŵn īeⁿ;
the original style.
ngŵn khòi;
the original deed.
kha, thàu lío ŏi hôk ngŵn a bŏi?
Will the feet on being unbound resume their original shape?
ngŵn pńg si jîeh cōi?
What capital had he to start with?
ngŵn ngṳ̂n siu hûe;
got back the sum originally paid out.
ngŵn-cá sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
that is the way it was at first.
ngŵn-kū sĭ cía ĭeⁿ;
in the beginning it was like this.
ngŵn lō tńg lâi;
returned by the same route.
chūe chut i kâi kṳn-ngŵn;
search out its origin.
i i-kū tŏ̤ ngŵn ūi tīu;
he lives in the place where he used to live.
ngŵn nâng;
the same person who did it before.
  • 顏ngŵn10831819
  • The countenance; color.
chēng kú-kú ngŵn-sek bŏi pìⁿ;
the color will not change, no matter how long it is worn.
bô̤ ngŵn hó̤ sie kìⁿ;
have not the face to call on him.
hô̤h hwt, thông ngŵn;
hoary hair, and a youthful face.
  • 願ngw̆n113718110
  • To desire; to hope; a preference; the object of desire.
sĭ i ka-kī chêng ngw̆n kâi, a sĭ lṳ́ míen-kíang i kâi?
Did he do it voluntarily or did you constrain him?
sĭ i kam-ngw̆n cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
he is willing to have it thus.
thiaⁿ tîeh ngw̆n sì;
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when he heard it, he thought he would rather die.
ka-kī cṳ̆ ngw̆n cò̤;
did it of his own free will.
jû ā sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa kâi ngw̆n cū cok;
if that is the way it is to be, my desires are satisfied.
sĭ úa ngw̆n kâi;
it is what I desired.
i cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ chêng, m̄ ngw̆n;
he does it very unwillingly.
bô̤ cêk nâng ngw̆n;
no one was willing.
sĭ i kâi sim só̤ ngw̆n;
it is what his heart desires.
ngŵn kio i tam-sêng;
is willing to guarantee it.
hwt ngw̄n; hĕ ngw̄n;
make a vow.
hòiⁿ ngw̄n;
pay a vow.
būe cêng kói ngw̄n;
not yet free from his vow.

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