Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ca

by Adele Marion Fielde

ca

• 女ca-bó641380
• A female, of the human race.

sĭ ta-po a ca-bó?

Is it a boy or a girl?

ca-bó kíaⁿ;

a daughter.

ca-bó ké cò̤ ta-po;

a woman disguised as a man.

• 渣ca3859
• Dregs; lees; what is left after infusion.

îeh ca;

the dregs of medicine.

tê ca;

tea leaves that have been steeped.

tè tīo ca;

strain out the dregs.

kbṳ̀ ca;

take out the lees.

hun-ca;

the refuse left in the pipe after opium has been smoked.

ca-cái;

sediment.

• 昨ca1005725
• Yesterday; time gone; recently.

ca-jît;

yesterday.

i ca-jît cìaⁿ lâi;

he came yesterday.

úa ca-mêⁿ-hng m̄ cai kio i tàⁿ;

I did not think to tell him last evening.

ca-mêⁿ cn̂g kâi bŏi ût;

I could not sleep at all last night.

i sĭ ca-mn̂g-khí lâi a sĭ ca-ĕ-kùa lâi?

Did he come yesterday morning or yesterday afternoon?

sĭ ca-jît-tàu lâi;

he came yesterday noon.

• 嗟ca9733010
• To sigh.

ca-thàng;

to sigh or moan.

• 楂ca3759
• A sour red fruit, a species of hawthorn.

suaⁿ-ca; sien-ca;

a sour fruit, the size of a cherry.

• 昔cá802724
• Anciently; formerly; a long time ago.

kó-cá;

in olden times.

ho̤h cá;

a considerable length of time since.

cá sî; cá nî;

in former times.

kim cá m̄ tâng;

it is not now as it-used to be.

cá tiang-sî;

a long time ago.

cá-cá cū ŭ;

in very ancient times there were.

kó-cá kâi nâng;

people of olden times.

• 早cá953722
• Early; betimes; soon.

khah cá;

too early.

thiⁿ-kng-cá;

at daylight.

kúaⁿ cá;

take time by the forelock.

cá pn̄g;

breakfast.

cá nî;

some years ago.

tâng-cá;

a little while ago.

tâng cá ŭ;

he had some just before.

cá sîn;

early dawn.

cá cē;

earlier.

cá cai ŭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa cĭu àiⁿ;

had I known before that there were such, I should have wanted some.

ṳ̆-pĭ cá cē;

be ready in good time.

úa tâng cá-cá thî-hûang i;

I gave him warning in good time.

cá khṳ̀, cá lâi;

the sooner you go the sooner you will get back.

cá chut, àm jîp;

go out for a long day's work.

cêk cá cĭu cáu-khí;

get up betimes.

cá tang, mn̄g tang;

the early and the late crop.

cá châng; mn̄g châng;

the first and the second rice crop of the year.

cá châng siu chek kâi sî-hāu, kìe-cò̤ cá tang;

the time of harvesting the first crop of the year is called the early harvest.

pó tōa cá a sĭ pó cá kíaⁿ?

Did you plant the early or the later sort?

cá mn̄g kâi sî-kè m̄ tâng;

prices are different at the two harvests.

úa tâng-cá cai;

I knew it before.

úa cá mn̄g cū kàu;

I am there early and late.

cá hŏ cá cêⁿ, ùaⁿ hŏ lâu mêⁿ;

if it rains early in the morning the sky will soon clear, but if it rains late in the afternoon, it will rain all night.

sĭ lṳ́ sĭang ŏi cá;

you are the one who can do it soonest.

cîah cá tê;

take tea early in the morning.

bŏi cá;

cannot be punctual.

• 詐cà41495
• To deceive; to feign; to delude; underhand.

kang-cà;

delusive.

cà-ngŭi;

hypocritical.

cà lêk;

extort by a false claim.

cà-phìen;

fraudnlent,

cà pēⁿ;

a feigned illness.

• 乍cà444
• Fitful; for a moment.

cà lîang cà jûah;

now it is cold then it is warm; the weather is fitful.

cà sie cà chìn;

hot and cold alternately.

cà khin cà tăng;

better a little while and then worse again.

cà hŏ cà cêⁿ;

changeable weather, rain and sunshine alternating.

• 竦cā8311177
• To shudder; the flesh creeping from awe or terror; horrified.

kiaⁿ kàu cêk sin cā-cā-kìe;

so frightened that my whole flesh crept.

thóiⁿ tîeh koi-bó̤-phûe cā-cā-kìe lí-lí phû;

on seeing it my flesh crept and goose-pimples came up all over me.