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Title A Manual of the Foochow Dialect 榕腔初學撮要
Author Caleb Cook Baldwin
Year 1871
Location China
Source pdf
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed
==Index.==
Part I. Grammar Page 146
Orthography 1
Tones 4
Description of the tones 5
Diagrams of the tones 6
Tones in combination (see also 192) 8
Importance of the tones 10
Tables of Initials and Finals (No 1—3.) 10
Parts of Speech 16
1. Article 17
2. Noun 17
Proper nouns or names, Patronymics or surnames 17
Common, collective, and compound nouns 18
Properties of nouns 19
Person, Gender ----- 19. Number ----- 20. Case 21
Classifiers or Numeratives (see also 158) 22
3. Pronouns 24
Personal pronouns ---- 24 Compound personal pronouns 26
Interrogative pronouns 26
Relative, compound relative, and demonstrative, pronouns 27
4. Adjectives 28
Degrees of adjectives 29
Numeral adjectives, Ordinal numbers (see also 152154) 31
5. Verbs 32
Moods 32
Participles 33
Tenses 34
Passive voice 35
Reduplicated verbs 36
6. Adverbs 37
7. Prepositions 38
8. Conjunctions 39
9. Interjections 39
Supplement 41
1. Final particles or Enclitic words 41
2. Interrogative particles and forms 43
3. Colloquial prefixes 45
4. Colloquial euphonic prefixes 45
Same words used as different parts of speech 46
Part II. Phrases Page 47100
1. Discrimination in uses of words 48
2. Literal Translations 49
3. The noun Tai꜅ or Tai꜅ kié꜄, Business 50
4. The nouns ꜂Hwi, Fire, and ꜂Ch'a, Wood 50


5. The adjective ꜂Hó, Good 51
6. The negative Ng꜅, Not, preceding certain adjectives 51
7. The verb K‘ó꜄, To go, to depart 52
8. The verb Siăh꜇, To eat, to drink, to smoke 54
9. The verb Chó꜄, To do, to make, to be 55
10. The verbs ꜁Kiăng, To walk, and Kwo꜄ To pass over 56
11. The verbs To open and To shut or close 57
12. Losing, seeking, finding, borrowing, lending 57
13. Domestic matters 59
The table ... 59. The kitchen ... 60. The bedroom ... 62 Lamps ... 63. Washing and Ironing ... 63. Sewing 64
14. Illness, ailments 66
15. Quantity 68
16. Accounts 69
17. Bargaining with a cabinet-maker 71
18. Excursions, traveling 72
19. Language, talking 76
20. Visiting, polite and familiar terms 77
21. Talk with a teacher 79
22. Reading and writing 81
23. Emotions and characteristics 82
24. Times and seasons 83
25. The weather 87
26. A conflagaration 89
27. Promiscuous phrases 90
28. Forms of prayer 92
The Lord's prayer ... 92. Prayer for the Sabbath ... 93 Morning prayer ... 96. Evening prayer ... 98. Grace at meals 100
Part III. Commercial Terms Page 101-123
1. Merchandize 101
2. Words and phrases 105
3. Buying and selling 118
4. On teas 120
5. The shroff 120
6. Godown man 123
Part IV. Religion, Literature, Government 124-151
1. Sects 124
2. Worshiped objects, gods, goddesses 125
National and ancestral objects of worship 126
Tauist deities ... 127. Budhist deities 131
3. Sages and philosophers 132
4. Authors 133
5. Books 134
The classics ... 134. Other common school-books ... 136. Miscellaneous works ... 137. Dictionaries ... 138. Novels 139
6. Schools, colleges, halls 139
7. Teachers and examiners 140
8. Reviews and examinations 140
9. Pupils, graduates, degrees 141
10. The empire, the central government 143
11. Provincial government 146


Civil officers -- 146. The army -- 147. Military officers 148
Mandarin's office or yamên 148
Punishments and tortures -- 149. Extrajudicial punishments 151
Part V. Miscellany 152-195
1. Numerals (see also 31) 152
2. Ordinals (see also 31) 154
3. Arithmetical tables 154
Troy weight, Avoirdupois weight 154
Linear measure, Square measure 155
Wine measures, Dry measure 156
Measure of time ---- 156. Circular and angular measure 157
4. Classifiers or numeratives (see also 22) 158
5. Asia and its countries 162
6. Provinces of China and their sub-divisions 163
7. Provinces of China and their capitals 164
8. Prefectures of Fookien province 164
9. Districts of Foochow prefecture 165
10. Treaty ports, etc. 165
11. Chinese chronology and dynasties 166
Cycle of 60 years -- 166. Table for the century (1801–1900) 167
Ordinary way of indicating dates of current events 168
Morrison's view of China–dynasties and reigns 168
Chinese Repository, vol. 10, p. 123, et seq.–8 periods 168
Synoptical table of Chinese dynasties --- 169. do. do. 170
12. Family relationships 171
Introductory terms --- 171. Tables (No. 1–20) 172
Index to preceding tables 182
13. Titles of address, etc. 184
Pertaining to relatives, Among acquaintances or strangers 184
Official compellations, etc. 185
14. Shop cards 187
15. Wedding cards 189
16. Funeral card 191
17. Exercises on combination of tones (see also 8) 192
Part VI. Vocabulary of Words and Terms in Part Second 196–219
Part VII. English and Chinese Vocabulary 220–256