Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/soiⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

soiⁿ

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• First; before; formerly; past; to go ahead; to regard as first; to put first; a cause; to begin; firstly; previous; deceased; late; gone before; early; soon; the ancients.

soiⁿ ău;

before and after.

soiⁿ côiⁿ kâi sṳ̄;

what happened before.

soiⁿ-sî;

previously.

i thâu soiⁿ kîaⁿ;

he went ahead.

úa soiⁿ kàu;

I arrived first.

úa soiⁿ khṳ̀, i jîen-ău lâi;

I went first and he came afterward.

soiⁿ tó̤ táng i;

there waiting for him beforehand.

hàm i soiⁿ kiâⁿ;

tell him to go first.

soiⁿ kun;

the late sovereign.

soiⁿ hu;

my late husband.

soiⁿ hŭ;

my deceased father.

soiⁿ-thiⁿ cok;

has a good constitution.

úa cū káⁿ tng soiⁿ;

I will venture to be foremost.

soiⁿ tiang-sî;

formerly.

soiⁿ nî;

in former years.

soiⁿ kúi jît;

a few days previous.

soiⁿ cai;

to know beforehand.

soiⁿ kìⁿ cū mêng;

the ken of a prophet.

būe-lâi-sṳ̄, soiⁿ cai;

knew beforehand what would happen.

úa soiⁿ-soiⁿ cū līo kàu;

I took all that into account long before.

tâng soiⁿ lṳ́ sĭ lâi am sĭ?

You came a while ago did you not?

úa thâu-mīn soiⁿ kîaⁿ, lṳ́ sûi-ău cū hó̤ lâi;

I will go on ahead, and you follow on afterward.

sĭ i sĭang soiⁿ lâi;

it was he who came first of all.

soiⁿ-cá tiang-sî;

in the first place; in early times; formerly.

ceⁿ soiⁿ;

strive to be first.

soiⁿ-nâng;

forefathers, predecessors.

soiⁿ tō̤;

former generations.

tâng soiⁿ tō̤ jŭi lô̤h lâî kâi;

handed down from former generations.