Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pe
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[edit]- 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.
- chit cŏ̤ poih pê káu hwt gê;
- sit up at seven months old, creep at eight and teeth at nine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.