Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kio
kio
- i cṳ̆ sòi kio-íang kùiⁿ-sìⁿ;
- from childhood she has been accustomed to indulgence.
- sía put tit kio chi;
- a comely wife cannot be put away.
- tá-pàng khí lâi kio-kiah;
- very elegantly dressed.
- kio-lùn;
- seductive.
- lău lâi kio;
- beauty in old age.
- siu-sîp kàu kio tih-tih;
- arranged very elegantly.
- lṳ́ cò̤-nî m̄ kio úa tàⁿ cai?
- Why did you not tell me about it?
- kio nâng m̄ sie tâng;
- unlike other people.
- úa kio lṳ̀ cò̤-pû lâi khṳ̀;
- I will go along with you.
- û ôiⁿ, àiⁿ kio lṳ́ tàⁿ ūe;
- when at leisure, I wish to speak with you.
- i kio lṳ́ ío siang-hó̤;
- he is rather friendly with jou.
- úa kio i m̄ sêk;
- I am not intimately acquainted with him.
- lṳ́ hó̤ khṳ̀ kio i tàⁿ;
- you go and tell him.
- kio i a-tĭ cò̤-pû lâi;
- came with his younger brother.
- kio i cò̤-pû cîah;
- mess with him.
- lṳ́ kio úa bói;
- you buy some for me.
- úa íⁿ-keng kìe i kio úa cò̤;
- I have already ordered him to make one for me.
- úa kio lṳ́ sṳ̆-lí kàu hó̤-hó̤;
- I will set them all in order for you.
- cía kio úa bô̤ kang-sîap;
- this is nothing to me.
- kio-ngău;
- overbearing; arrogant.
- kio-kio keng-keng;
- very presumptuous.
- tîeh cai kẃn-hak i, màiⁿ khṳt i kio-chia, îm-ît;
- you must keep him under control, and not allow him to be proud and self-indulgent.
- i kâi tàⁿ ūe kio căi;
- he talks in a very conceited way.
- sĭen kio cía cū pit-tīaⁿ sĭen mĭⁿ;
- the haughty are sure to be sycophantic.
- hía m̄ kio-ngău nâng kâi, i cū bô̤ mih thíam-mĭⁿ nâng;
- he who is not supercilious toward people, is not apt to be subservient to people.
- màiⁿ kió-kíang i;
- do not force him to it.
- cìeⁿ-seⁿ sǹg sĭ kío jîu caŭ cak; that is acting as the exigencies suggest;
- being firm or yielding as one's interest demands.
- tī-tîang kío lṳ́? Who helped you about it?
- kío i khui hâng; help him to open a store.
- i cē ŭ nâng kío cū sêng;
- if he gets help from some one he will accomplish it.
- ciú-ńg m̄ tîeh kío phû cē?
- Why do you not roll your sleeves higher?
- chíu-ńg kío khah phû;
- your sleeves are rolled up too high.
- cía chíu-ńg khah tó̤: hó̤ kío cêk kho, m̄-hó̤ kío nŏ̤ kho;
- these sleeves are too short they may be turned up one fold but not two.
- hṳ́ kháu khiak-khiak-kìe sĭ tó̤ bōi hió a m̄ sĭ?
- The sound of a rattle out there is made by some one who is selling dumplings is it not?
- khṳ̀ phàu úaⁿ kío lâi tíam-sim;
- go and warm up a bowl of dumplings for luncheon.
- úa àiⁿ cò̤ cò̤ kío cîah;
- I want to make it into dumplings.
- kío phûe, kío āⁿ;
- the paste, and the filling of a dumpling.
- sâh kío;
- to boil dumplings.
- i kâi kío pau hê-bí;
- his dumplings are stuffed with dessicated prawns.
- kío-jío;
- to disturb.
- i sĭ tó̤ kío sĭ kío hui;
- he is exciting discussion.
- i cong-kú lâi kío-kío jío-jío;
- he is always coming and annoying me.
- cía lâi kío-jío pàng lṳ́ kò̤, m̄ kai;
- I have discommoded you, as I ought not.
- kío lĕng;
- to deliver orders.
- kío knǵ;
- to hand in an essay.
- kío-hâiⁿ i lío;
- already delivered over to him.
- būe cêng kío;
- undelivered.
- cng kĭaⁿ kío tŏ̤ kuaⁿ tèng;
- the stolen goods are delivered to the officials,
- kío phìe;
- deliver the written directions.
- hăng saⁿ jît lăi cĭu àiⁿ kío cheng-chó̤;
- all to be delivered within three days.
- kío khòi;
- to hand over the deeds.
- kío sìo;
- to band over the accounts.
- kĭo khí lâi;
- pry it up.
- khṳt i kĭo cîh;
- broken in being pried up.
- khîeh ki phûe-chîang khṳ̀ kĭo;
- take a crowbar and pry it up.
- kĭo m̄ khí;
- cannot pry it up.
- i thī khṳ̀ méⁿ căi: thóiⁿ i kâi cam li-li kĭo;
- she sews very fast: see her needle fly.
- khîeh ki cam lâi kio úa kĭo chúaⁿ;
- take a needle and pick out this sliver for me.
- kío ô̤;
- dig oysters from their shells.