Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/iah
iah
- a-nôⁿ cò̤-nî cìeⁿ-sî àiⁿ iah nĭ?
- Why does the baby throw up its milk lately?
- cîah lío iah chut lâi;
- threw it up after swallowing it.
- i cí nŏ̤ jît iah hueh;
- he has vomited blood these last two days.
- bô̤ iah;
- of no benefit.
- ŭ sún, bô̤ iah;
- it is all loss, and no profit.
- bô̤ lĭ-iah;
- not advantageous.
- ŭ sĭm-mih iah chù nē?
- Of what advantage is it?
- tăi ŭ iah;
- very beneficial.
- pó-iah sin-hun;
- good for the health.
- khiam sĭ ŭ iah;
- humility advances one's interests.
- iah-bó̤-cháu;
- boneset.
- chap cí kâi phêng-íu cū ŭ iah;
- to associate with this friend will promote your interests.
- îah căm;
- a post-station.
- kàu îah-căm cū ūaⁿ;
- change at the post-station.
- îah-sêng sòi-sòi sĭ láu-tiaⁿ;
- the governor of a post-station, be it ever so small, is still a governor.
- îah bé;
- post horses.
- mîaⁿ-ke phok îah;
- expert in divining by diagrams.
- cí hûe khṳ̀ phok kâi îah-khùe;
- now went and had his fortune told by diagrams.
- îah lí sĭ chim kâi;
- the doctrine of the diagrams is a deep one.
- cang îah-khùe cē chui-sǹg būe lâi kâi sṳ̄ cū ŏi soiⁿ cai;
- by reckoning from the diagrams one may know the future.
- îah-kiaⁿ;
- The Book of Changes.
- îah i lâi;
- beckon to him to approach.
- cang chíu îah i;
- beckon to him.
- thoiⁿ i cang sìⁿ tó̤ îah úa;
- saw him motioning to me with his fan.
- îah i bûa lâi tàⁿ ūe;
- beckon to him to come and speak with me.
- bói-îah;
- brilliant moths or butterflies.
- bói-îah tó̤ chái hue;
- the butterflies flit from flower to flower.
- cí kâi bói-îah pàng lâi kûiⁿ căi;
- this kite, made in imitation of a butterfly, has been sent up very high.
- cang cúa kô kâi bói-îah;
- make a butterfly kite of paper.
- thái-ko̤ îah;
- a large gray moth.
- îah-thâu kâi ôi;
- shoes having butterfly shaped ornaments on the toes.
- teng khṳt teng-îah phah kùe;
- the lamp has been extinguished by a small gray moth's flying into it.
- chôiⁿ pìⁿ tāu-jîn ău cū pìⁿ cò̤ îah;
- the silk-worm changes into a grub and afterward into a moth.
- tōa cúi îah;
- moths that are numerous in floods and heavy rains.