Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piet

by Adele Marion Fielde

piet

• 别pîet684185
• To separate; to divide; to part; to distinguish; different.

hun-pîet;

to discriminate between.

hun-pîet sĭ hui;

distinguish between the true and the false.

cĭam pîet sù-sî;

separated for a little time.

pĭen-pîet mêng-pêh;

discriminate clearly.

keh-pîet kú lío;

long separated.

i íⁿ-keng pîet nîap, cò̤ pât sṳ̄;

he has already left that occupation and is doing other business.

kàu hṳ́ kò̤ pîet ŭ thiⁿ tī;

when there one leads a very different sort of life.

seⁿ-chêng kak pîet;

their dispositions are unlike.

lâm ńng ŭ pîet;

the sexes are separated by proprieties.

lî hieⁿ pîet céⁿ;

leave one's native village.

sî pîet;

take leave of.

lŏi tang híen ŭ pîet chêng;

there are manifestly other circumstances which he has not told.