Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/toiⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

toiⁿ

• 典tóiⁿ894126
• To mortgage.

tóiⁿ châng;

to mortgage a field.

tóiⁿ chù;

mortgage a house.

cẃn tóiⁿ;

to sub-mortgage.

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• A consecutive rank or place; placed before numbers it forms the ordinal; to grade; to arrange in a series.

tŏiⁿ it, tŏiⁿ jī, tŏiⁿ saⁿ;

first, second, third, or firstly, secondly, thirdly.

tŏiⁿ it mîaⁿ;

the name at the head of the list.

i pâi tŏ̤ tŏiⁿ kúi kò̤?

What is its order in the series?

lîet chṳ̀ tŏiⁿ-lîet hó̤ lío;

the place which each is to occupy in the series is already assigned.

tŏiⁿ kúi hō̤?

Of what grade is it?

lîet téng tŏiⁿ;

ranged in the higest rank.

ŭ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng kio bô̤ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng m̄ tâng;

those who had a standing in the literary ranks before entering into public life, are unlike those who had not such a standing.

• 閾tŏiⁿ11411698
• The threshold or sill of a door.

m̂ng tŏiⁿ m̄ hó̤ khĭa;

do not stand on the door sill.

tōa ke mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

a broad sill.

pak tīo mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

to take away the door sill.

huah mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

step over the door sill.

cîhe mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

stone threshold.

i peh mn̂g tŏiⁿ peh m̄ kùe;

he cannot get over the sill.

• 佃tŏiⁿ89695
• Tenants; field hands.

tŏiⁿ hŏ;

tenants.

châng tŏiⁿ;

lessees of land.

hng tŏiⁿ;

the lessee of a garden.

chù tŏiⁿ;

the tenant of a house.

phò tŏiⁿ;

the one who rents and occupies a shop.

tŏiⁿ sĭ tī-tîang?

Who is the tenant?

hóⁿ tŏiⁿ;

a masterful tenant.

tío tŏiⁿ;

eject a tenant.

hŭo tŏiⁿ;

give information to tenants of a change of landlords.

kú tŏiⁿ sêng cieh;

and old tenant becomes an old settler.

• 靛tōiⁿ8971748
• Indigo, or any of the blue dyes found in China.

cheⁿ-tōiⁿ sĭ cheⁿ cò̤ kâi;

indigo is made from the indigo plant.

îeⁿ tōiⁿ;

prussian blue.

lâm tōiⁿ;

indigo blue.

tōiⁿ kng;

a blue dye-pot.

tōiⁿ hue;

the indigo as it floats on the liquor.

tōiⁿ tái;

dregs in the bottom of the indigo vats.

cheⁿ cìm tŏ̤ hâk tói, àu kú, cū cò̤ tōiⁿ;

the indigo plant, leaves and stalks, after being put into lime water and long soaked, becomes indigo.

tōiⁿ tháng;

the vats in which indigo is made.

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• A high and grand hall; a palace; the hall of audience; a main building in a temple.

cêk cō̤ keng-tōiⁿ; kim lŵn tōiⁿ;

a royal palace.

thài-cṳ́ ûang-îa cheng-cò̤ tōiⁿ-ĕ;

crown princes are address as "Your Highness."

tōa tōiⁿ; cìaⁿ tōiⁿ;

the main building in a temple.

côiⁿ tōiⁿ, ău tōiⁿ, phien tōiⁿ;

the building in the front, at the back, or on the side, in a temple.

• 堅tōiⁿ380328
• Dense; compact; sound; solid; firm; hard; concrete; lasting.

cí īeⁿ pò ío tōiⁿ;

this sort of cloth wears better.

tōiⁿ châ;

hard wood.

cía sam tōiⁿ, hía sam phàⁿ;

this deal is of compact fiber, while that is light and porous.

tōiⁿ kùe thih;

more durable than iron.

kàⁿ-bó̤ phû būe kàu, khah tōiⁿ;

the yeast has not fermented in it sufficiently, and it is too heavy.

cí khí cîeh tōiⁿ căi;

this sort of stone is very hard.

chîeⁿ ceng lâi tōiⁿ-tōiⁿ;

the wall is pounded very hard.

i kâi chù khí lâi bŏi tōiⁿ;

his house is not strongly built.