Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/khu
khu
[edit]- khu sîaⁿ tôk mût;
- to dispel noxious influences.
- tī-tîang khu-sái lṳ́ lâi?
- Who urged you into coming?
- khu piaⁿ côiⁿ-cìn;
- urge the troops forward.
- khu kàu i m̄ káⁿ lâi;
- worked upon his fears so that he did not come.
- i ŏi khu sîn hîah kúi;
- he can animate the gods, and detain the demons.
- khu cêk kâi kúi chut lâi teng-tùe;
- forced a demon to come out and attend upon him.
- khu huang;
- expel the wind.
- khu sip;
- expel bad humors.
- cêk khu châng;
- a field.
- cí cêk khu hn̂g cū khuah;
- this garden plot is wide.
- cí khu tī tǹg nâng ŭ nŏ̤ saⁿ khu khuah;
- this piece of ground is three or four times as wide as theirs.
- in cí-kò̤ kâi chang-khu ío ôih;
- their fields here are narrower.
- kek piah khu;
- the adjoining lot.
- i nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ teh kha-khu;
- the two are playing draughts.
- put khu ke cíe to hó̤;
- whether more or less is no matter.
- m̄ khu tōa sòi úa lóng-cóng àiⁿ;
- whether large or small I want all of them.
- míen khu tīaⁿ tī cêk jît;
- need not fix any particular day.
- màiⁿ khu lói-sìo;
- do not be formal.
- i kâi nâng khah khu-cip;
- he is too set in his own way.
- cò̤ sṳ̄ khah khu-nĭ;
- acts too willfully.
- cē bô̤ nâng khu-sok cū thèng cò̤;
- whenever be is without some one to restain him he acts recklessly.
- thek che khu kìu;
- send constables to seize and examine.
- i kâi sin-khu ío kûiⁿ-tōa;
- he is rather tall and stout.
- i kâi sin-khu ío ói sòi;
- he is rather short and small.
- úa cṳ̆ ŭ khu-chú;
- I have a good plan for it.
- khu-pîet mêng-pêh;
- discriminate clearly.
- khû lô̤h khṳ̀, tô̤h khí lâi;
- squat down and pick it up.
- i khû tó̤ hṳ́-kò̤, táng i;
- he is squatting there waiting for him.
- cía bí sĭ ceng hue khŭ kâi a sĭ ceng cîeh khŭ kâi;
- was this rice pounded in a chunan mortar or in a stone mortar?
- khŭ sói cheng-khih lío khṳt i lā: ùaⁿ cē àiⁿ ceng kùe;
- wash the mortar clean and let it dry in the air: after a little while I am going to pound up the ingredients for a cake.
- khŭ-kíaⁿ;
- a small mortar.
- îeh-khŭ;
- a mortar for triturating medicines.
- ci kâi mn̂g-kha-khŭ tîeh ūaⁿ;
- the socket in which this door turns must be renewed.
- hṳ́ ki khŭ-kíaⁿ-thûi m̄-kìⁿ-khṳ̀;
- the pestle to this little mortar is missing.
- kha kut pûah chut khŭ;
- he fell and dislocated his thigh bone.
- i kâi chíu cò̤-nî ŏi chut khŭ?
- How did he dislocate his shoulder joint?
- nín cêk jît sio ŭ jîeh cōi khŭ bí?
- How many mortars full of rice do you consume in a day?
- thang-îu-hue khŭ;
- a mortar used in making putty.
- sṳ̄ to m̄ kui khŭ;
- the matter does not take a manageable shape.
- cí kâi tûi m̄ kah cí kâi khŭ;
- this pounder does not fit this mortar.
- cò̤ cêk khŭ khah tĭⁿ, tîeh cò̤ nŏ̤ khŭ ceng;
- there is too much for one pounding, you must make two of it.
- mn̂g-tŏiⁿ khŭ;
- sockets in a doorsill, for bars to stand in.