Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lut

by Adele Marion Fielde

lut

• 脫lut9141307
• To slip out; to come apart; to shed.

khah khùaⁿ cū ŏi lut chut lâi;

if it is too loose it will slip out.

i kă kín-kín, pak m̄ lut;

he holds it very tightly between his teeth, and I cannot get it out.

khṳt i tîⁿ kín tó̤ kò̤, pak m̄ lut lih;

it is all tangled up in it, and I cannot untangle it in the least.

i kâi ie-tŏ lut khṳ̀, kio i pâk hó̤ cē;

her girdle has untied, tie it on for her.

kut lut chut lâi;

the bones slip out from the flesh.

sâh kàu lut kut;

seethe it till the bones fall out.

chīu lut hîeh;

the trees shed their leaves.

lut mô̤ⁿ;

shed their fur.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ bŏi lut;

thus it will not fail to stay where it is fixed.

• 𥏘lut4451118
• Docked; lopped off; clipped.

tó̤-lut;

curtailed; chipped; cut short.

kô̤-kíaⁿ mûeh tó̤-lut tó̤-lut nē, tâk tîeh sĭm-mih cîⁿ;

a bit of a thing, and with part of it hacked off at that, it can be of no great value.

cí cêk ki sang-hû cìeⁿ tó̤-lut, cò̤ tâk ŭ cìeⁿ cōi ngṳ̂n?

How is it that this stem of red coral, truncated as it is, is worth so much money?

chíu chun chut lâi tó̤-lut tô̤-lut, nē;

stretched out a stubby arm.

khah tó̤-lut, m̄ cìe īeⁿ;

too squat, and unstylish.

• 捋lût560647
• To rub or draw through the hand.

lût i kâi cí chut lâi;

scrape out its seeds.

lût gû-ni;

to milk.

lût chiu;

to stroke the beard.

mô̤ⁿ lût tît;

smooth the hair straight.

cúi-hun-tâng cang pó̤-sua lût i kng;

take emery powder and polish the pipe.

chíu-hŵn lût chut lâi;

pall off your bracelet.

• 𡼿屼lût-sût1065
• Bare, not wooded, as a hill.

kng-lût-sût;

perfectly bald; destitute of all vegetable growth.

kâi suaⁿ cn̂g kâi kng-lût-sût;

a perfectly bald mountain.

múaⁿ-tī-kò̤ kng-lût-sût kng-lût-sût, i àiⁿ tìam-pàng tī-kò̤?

The whole place is without copse or brushwood, where would he hide in it?

i kâi thâu-khak kng-lût-sût;

his pate is bald.

• 律lût563606
• A statute, a fixed law, an ordinance; a standard; rules of versification.

lût-lī;

statutes and rescripts, (the former are regarded as more fundamental than the latter).

lût-huap ngîam;

the laws are strict.

i cò̤ sṳ̄ bô̤ huap bô̤ lût;

he acts without any regard to rules or regulations; he is perfectly lawless.

cêk lût kîaⁿ;

one uniform code.

chit lût si;

heptameter verse.

cìe lût phōiⁿ;

judged according to law.

• 鷸lût114019612
• A water-bird, perhaps a lapwing, named from its note; it knows the approach of rain and is thought by the Chinese to be akin to the quail.