Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pe

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  • A faggot; a bundle; a classifier of things held in the hand; a single handful.
cêk pé châ;
a bundle of faggots.
cêk pé tṳ̄;
a bundle of chopsticks.
pâk cò̤ cêk pé;
tie them up in a bundle.
cêk pé cêk pé;
bunch by bunch.
líam húe-pé chīeⁿ lō;
light a torch to illumine the way.
i khṳ̀ ŭ kâi pé gûeh;
he has been gone about a month.
cía tâk kàu peh pé ngṳ̂n;
this is worth about a hundred dollars.
i kâi chíu-pé ho̤h tŏa;
he has very large arms.
cē sa cū cìaⁿ pé;
as soon as you rake it up you will get a bundle.
meⁿ pé bí pun i;
took up a handful of rice and gave it to him.
meⁿ pé îam lài lô̤h;
take up a handful of salt and put it in.
pê thâu-khak;
to scratch the head.
pê cĭeⁿ;
scratch where it itches.
saⁿ nî kòi ciah lă lṳ́ pê;
scratching itch scars that are three years old is as much work as you care to do.
khin-khin pê;
scratch lightly.
it-khùai, thǹg bûeh pê kha;
the greatest comfort is to take off your stockings and scratch your feet.
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  • To creep; to crawl.
chit cŏ̤ poih pê káu hwt gê;
sit up at seven months old, creep at eight and teeth at nine.
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  • To crawl, as worms do.
sêng-peh thâng pê cêk koiⁿ, chi-gî căi;
the caterpillars from the fir trees are crawling everywhere, and rendering all places horrible.
cêk tīo pê tŏ̤ lṳ́ sin tèng;
there is one crawling upon you.
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  • A drag; a rake; to harrow.
lôi, pê, cúi-chia;
ploughs, harrows and water-wheels; farming implements.
khîa ki khau-pê khṳ̀ khau cháu;
take a rake and rake out the weeds.
pê châng;
harrow a field.
phah sua pê;
an instrument for clearing water courses from sand.
pê khui;
rake open.
thih pê;
an iron rake.
a small land-crab common in rice-fields.
âng kha pê-khî;
red clawed land crabs.
a trident; a three pronged fork, used as a weapon in battle.
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  • A father; an ancestor.
seⁿ pĕ;
he who begot me.
pĕ chin;
own father.
ngĭ pĕ;
adopted father.
pĕ cip;
my father's friends.
peh pĕ, cek pĕ;
father's elder and younger brother.
pĕ hiaⁿ kà kíaⁿ-tĭ to sĭ kà i hó̤;
when fathers and elder brothers teach the children of a family, they are always well taught.
pĕ-bó̤ kuaⁿ;
our district magistrate.
thî-kìu pĕ sṳ;
examine his father and his teacher.
i tâng sòi bô̤ pĕ bô̤ bó̤;
from his infancy he has had neither father nor mother.
có pĕ;
grandfather.
ceng có pĕ;
great grandfather.
kau có pĕ;
great great grandfather.
ngák pĕ;
wife's father.
tâng-nî pĕ;
the father of a friend born in the same year as myself.
i kâi pĕ có īa sĭ thí-mīn kâi nâng;
his ancestors also were people of repute.
jû ló ău-pĕ;
hatred like that toward a step-father.
pĕ bó̤ sieh kíaⁿ kâi sim, bô̤ só put cì;
the affection of parents toward their children has no limit.
thiⁿ ĕ bô̤ put sĭ ti pĕ bó̤;
nothing under heaven can render our parents anything but our parents.