Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/co̤h

by Adele Marion Fielde

coh

• 作co̤h100595
• To do; actions.

co̤h kang;

to work.

co̤h châng;

to till the soil.

hĭa co̤h câi;

very mean and stingy.

hwt-co̤h;

to relapse.

pēⁿ hwt-co̤h;

the ailment has returned.

• 築co̤h961189
• To build dykes or intrenchments; to ram down the earth.

co̤h toi;

to make a dyke.

co̤h huang-ûi chîeⁿ;

to build a protecting wall.

co̤h châng hūaⁿ;

make embankments between fields.

co̤h bé-thâu;

build a pier.

• 絕cô̤h10111206
• To cut short; to interrupt the connection; most.

cô̤h ău sṳ̂;

cut off all the heirs.

khîong teng cô̤h hŏ;

disinherit all the descendants.

hía kíaⁿ sĭ cô̤h kíaⁿ;

this is a disinherited son.

cô̤h lō;

sunder the connection of the road.

cô̤h kan;

break off the connection.

cô̤h chù hông seⁿ;

all resources seemed cut off, but a way out of the difficulty appeared.

cô̤h tùi kâi ūe;

a pun on words.

cô̤h cîah;

stop the rations.

cía hó̤ cô̤h tīo;

it may be severed from this point.

ngía cô̤h;

superior to all.

cô̤h céng;

extinct, as a race or species.

cô̤h sì hó̤;

the best the earth affords.