Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/nuaⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

=== nuaⁿ ===

• 攔nûaⁿ5016417
• To stop; to hinder; to embarrass.

bô̤ nâng káⁿ lâi nûaⁿ-có̤;

no one dare come and put a stop to it.

bô̤ có̤ bô̤ nûaⁿ, tît-tît cū kàu hṳ́-kò̤;

no interference nor impediment, so that we went there straightway.

nûaⁿ kīe jîp-tîaⁿ;

embarrass the sedan in entering the court-yard.

nûaⁿ lō chíeⁿ kiap;

waylay and rob.

nûaⁿ côih tŏ̤ iò lō kò̤;

beset them in the pass.

nûaⁿ m̄ cŭ;

could not stop them.

• 欄nûaⁿ5017517
• A pen; a railing.

céⁿ nûaⁿ;

a well-curb.

gû nûaⁿ;

a cattle pen.

• 涎nŭaⁿ982857
• Saliva.

lâu nŭaⁿ;

to drool.

nŭaⁿ-cúi kī-kī lâu;

the saliva ran out continually.

jíang kàu âu bô̤ nŭaⁿ;

shrieked till my throat was parched.

thóiⁿ tîeh tó̤ tăm nŭaⁿ;

seeing it makes his mouth water.

cêk mn̂g-khí khí-lâi kâi chùi seⁿ lô̤ nŭaⁿ;

when I get up in the morning my mouth tastes badly.

lâu nŭaⁿ, lâu phûeh;

froth at the mouth.

chàu nŭaⁿ kôi;

fetid secretions from the mouth.

phùi nŭaⁿ;

to spit.

• 爛nūaⁿ5038617
• Rotten; corrupted; running, as an old sore; over-ripe; pulpy.

i cêk sin ŏi phùa nūaⁿ;

he is covered with old sores.

ciu sin mîⁿ-mîⁿ nūaⁿ-nūaⁿ;

his whole body is putrescent.

àu kàu nūaⁿ;

so rotten as to be putrid.

nūaⁿ châ m̄ hó̤ tio;

rotten wood is not good to whittle.

cù nūaⁿ;

worm eaten.

àiⁿ cṳ́ kàu i nūaⁿ tîeh ho̤h cōi thùaⁿ;

to cook it till it is pulpy will take a deal of coal.