Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mueⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

=== mueⁿ ===

• 每múeⁿ586803
• A distributive particle, each, every; each one; any one.

múeⁿ jît, múeⁿ mêⁿ;

every day and night.

múeⁿ tǹg;

every meal.

múeⁿ nâng;

every one.

mûeⁿ kĭaⁿ;

every sort.

múeⁿ sṳ̄;

every affair.

• 痲mûeⁿ5711048
• The measles.

chut mûeⁿ;

have the measles.

a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ hùe cîah mûaⁿ tó̤ kò̤;

the children have caught the measles.

• 泥mûeⁿ630855
• Mud.

thô-kau-mûeⁿ; thô mûeⁿ;

mud; pasty soil.

sái-kau-mûeⁿ;

mud from a sewer.

hô-liu kàng thô-mûeⁿ;

the fresh water eel burrows in the mud.

• 粥mûeⁿ971196
• Congee.

pû mûeⁿ; cṳ́ mûeⁿ;

to make congee.

mûeⁿ àiⁿ kṳ̂t a àiⁿ chieh?

Do you want the congee thick or thin?

• 昧mŭeⁿ586725
• Dark; obscure; difficult to distinguish things; the mind not clear about a thing.

mŭeⁿ sim kâi sṳ̄ m̄-hó̤ cò̤;

one should not do what is against his conscience.

mŭeⁿ pńg sim;

deceive one's self.

mŭeⁿ lîang sim;

to confuse one's perceptions of the right.

i kâi sim àm-mŭeⁿ;

his mind is darkened.

mông-mŭeⁿ;

unable to perceive clearly; befogged.

• 魅mŭeⁿ5861945
• An ogre, or demon brute of the woods; a brownie with a man's face and four legs.

sîa-mŭeⁿ;

a vicious satyr; a fiendish beast.

• 寐mŭeⁿ587409
• To rest from labor and dose.

māng-mŭeⁿ kâi sṳ̄ m̄-hó̤ pêng;

one should not take what he dreams as evidence.

• 妹mūeⁿ586385
• A younger sister.

a-mūeⁿ kíaⁿ;

a little sister.

sòi mūeⁿ;

the youngest sister.

hiaⁿ-tĭ cí-mūeⁿ;

brothers and sisters.

lĕng mūeⁿ kè tī-kò̤?

Into what place is your sister married?

píe cí-mūeⁿ;

female cousins of different surnames.

mūeⁿ sài;

younger sister's husband.

kit pài cò̤ cí-mūeⁿ;

adopted by each other as sisters.