Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/meh
meh
[edit]- îe meh-meh;
- sheep bleat.
- meh-meh-kìe;
- bleating.
- 貘mêh58315311
- The tapir, which is said to have the body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the eye of a rhinoceros, the head of a lion, the hair of a wolf, the feet of a tiger, and teeth that fire cannot burn.
- mêh ŏi cîah thih, tîeh ēng húe cìaⁿ lêng mûeh sí i;
- the tapir eats iron, and in order to kill one, fire must be employed.
- àng mêh; phah mêh;
- feel the pulse.
- chíaⁿ sin-seⁿ thóiⁿ mêh;
- call a doctor to consider the pulse.
- i kâi mêh-lí ceng căi;
- he understands thoroughly the laws of the circulation of the blood.
- ŏi kìⁿ sí mêh, mē?
- Do you discover that the disease is likely to prove fatal?
- mêh ŭ sîn;
- the pulse shows strength.
- i kâi mêh só̤ seⁿ sĭ ìuⁿ-sìu;
- his pulse is naturally slow and weak.
- kâi mêh khah phû-hùam cho-tōa;
- his pulse is much too high.
- i m̄ pat mêh;
- he does not know how to investigate disease through the pulse.
- chin hueh mêh;
- own kindred; blood relations.
- cí cìeⁿ cōi tō̤ to sĭ cêk mêh siang sêng bŏi chàm câp;
- all these many generations are of one blood, without admixture from other families.
- cí kò̤ sĭ cho̤ chut mêh kâi tī-hng;
- this is where the family first came from.
- jîp mêh, cí cêk cak ngía căi;
- for entering upon the argument, this verse is a fine one to take up.
- tâng hûeh mêh;
- of one blood.