Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/cam

by Adele Marion Fielde

cam

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• A needle; a pin; a lancet; to puncture.

chng cam;

thread a needle.

bûa cam;

polish a needle.

cò̤ cam;

make needles.

tōa cam, jī cam, saⁿ cam, cam kíaⁿ;

large, medium sized, fine, and very fine needles.

tōa kong cam;

a darning needle.

hue cam;

an embroidery needle.

cam khang, cam búe;

the eye and the point of a needle.

cam phīⁿ;

the end of a needle opposite the point.

cam kha khah hi;

the stitches are too long.

tîeh bâk cam cē;

you must sew it more finely.

cí kâi hŭ-jîn hó̤ cam-cí;

this woman is a good sewer.

hâng-sú-cam;

a thermometer.

huang-hŏ-cam;

a barometer.

sî-ceng cam;

the hands of a clock.

pang-cam; thng-sî cam;

the pin used to fasten the coiffure.

jû cŏ̤ cam-ciⁿ;

as if sitting on needles.

ēng cam lâi thie tīo i kâi hueh;

get a lancet and bleed him.

cam huap;

the rules for acupuncture.

cêk cam kìⁿ hueh;

one puncture brought the blood.

cam kù;

to probe.

cam-tùi;

point to point.

cam-tùi móng nâng tàⁿ;

it refers to what a certain person said.

thih póiⁿ bûa cîaⁿ sìu-hue cam;

an iron ferule may be ground down into an embroidery needle.

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• To stick in the hair, or hat.

cam hue;

to put flowers in the hair.

cam ēng;

to put a tassel into a cap.

hue cam, hue lúi;

sprays and flowers, used as head ornaments.

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• To sever; to sunder; to chop off; to cut.

cám châ;

to cut wood.

cám khui;

to sunder.

cám tīo;

chop it off.

cám thâu;

to behead.

cám chīu lîah cío;

to cut down the tree in order to catch the bird.

cám cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;

cut it in two.

ēng pó-thâu cìaⁿ hó̤ cám;

take an axe and then you can chop it off.

cám cháu tṳ̂ kṳn;

to cut down the weeds and extirpate their roots; to wholly exterminate; to cut off all one's posterity.

cám teng côih thih;

to cut off a nail.

cám síu sī cèng;

to decapitate as a warning to others; to make an oxample of.

kìe cám cŭe;

a capital crime.

kam cám kuaⁿ;

a sheriff.

cám, ká, kun, lîu, thû, sĭ ngŏ īeⁿ hêng huap;

beheading, hanging, sending into the army, temporary banishment, and perpetual banishment, are the five methods of punishment.

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• To slander or vilify.

càm-cǹg;

to defame.

i hàuⁿ càm-cǹg nâng;

he is addicted to slandering people.

càm-cǹg kùe lâi, càm-cǹg kùe khṳ̀;

backbiting each the other.

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• A fine chisel; a graving tool; to chisel out; to engrave.

căm kíaⁿ;

a graving tool.

căm hue;

to grave flowers.

căm khṳ̀ hue-cháu ngía căi;

the carving was beautifully done.

căm lâi hue-jī m̄ hīn;

the letters are are not plainly cut.

tîeh căm chim cē;

they must be cut deeper.

khah tōiⁿ, căm m̄ lô̤h;

the stuff is too hard, it cannot be chiseled out.

ngṳ̂n căm;

chasing on silver.

căm hue kâi nâng;

the graver.

màiⁿ căm khih khṳ̀;

do not break it in chiseling it.

cîeh căm;

a stone-cutter's chisel.

cía khang tîeh căm khuah cē, cìaⁿ tàu tit lô̤h;

this hole must be cut larger, so the plug will go in.

căm chùi cē;

cut it more delicately.

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• A stage of a journey.

îah căm;

the distance between post houses.

cêk căm lō;

one stage of a journey.

tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ kàu hṳ́-kò̤ ŭ kúi căm lō̤?

How many stages from here there?

lō-căm àiⁿ cò̤-nî pheⁿ-phah?

What route have you decided upon?

thâu căm kàu tī-kò̤?

What is the first stopping place?

jī căm kàu hṳ́-kò̤;

that will be the second stopping place on the route.