Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/sok

by Adele Marion Fielde

sok

• 束sok779753
• To bind many things together, to tie in a bundle, as fagots; to restrain, to coerce; a sheaf, a bundle; a classifier of such things as are bound.

sok cò̤ cêk sok;

bind them up in one bundle.

kwn lăi kâi sok-siu sĭ jîeh cōi?

In the written agreement with the teacher, what is the sum agreed upon as his wages?

ak-sok; iak-sok;

to repress, to keep down.

tîeh cai ak-sok i màiⁿ hùang-sṳ̀;

must keep him under restraint so that he will not be impudent.

iak-sok kàu ngîam căi;

kept in strict subjection.

m̄-hó̤ sok-pâk kàu nâng bô̤ lō hó̤ kîaⁿ;

should not bind people so that they have no freedom of action.

hái-îeⁿ kâi pńg chut lâi ŭ jîeh cōi sok?

How many bundles of fifty essays each were there, belonging to the Hai Ie candidates?

i cí hûe sît-căi sok chíu;

he is now really unable to act.

• 索sok8151204
• To place under obligation harmfully.

lêk-sok;

extort.

cà sok;

badger.

sok mīaⁿ;

to involve one's life.

sok i kâi hûn;

implicate to such an extent as to involve all he possesses.

• 縮sok78012011
• To shrink; to contract; to shrivel up; to draw in.

lîm tīn, thò̤-sok;

retreated when face to face with the enemy.

sok cò̤ cêk kò̤-kíaⁿ;

shriveled up to a little bit.

sok-tó̤ ku-ā chùn;

shrunk several inches.

kṳn sok kàu ŏi thìaⁿ;

the tendon is drawn up so that it aches.

sok-bûa;

to draw in.

sok-bûa cìaⁿ bŏi kûe lō;

draw back, so as not to be in the way.

úa kâi kha, thiⁿ-sî chìn cū ŏi sok sòi;

when the weather is cold my feet shrivel and become smaller.

sok cò̤ cêk pé;

all shrunk up in a bunch.

sok kàu sòi-sòi;

shriveled up small.

• 速sok8231627
• Hasty, speedy, quick, urgent.

sok-sok cū khṳ̀ lí;

went quickly to attend to it.

húe sok cū khṳ̀;

went off in the utmost haste.

ciet sok cū lâi;

came with the greatest speed.

kîaⁿ sĭ kùe sok-hieⁿ;

goes out of fashion sooner than a common incense stick burns out.

àiⁿ sok put tâk;

if you are too urgent it cannot be effected; the more haste the less speed.

• 肅sok8221297
• Respectful; reverential, as when one is desirous to do his duty fully; severe and majestic.

sok-cĕⁿ;

decorous.

i kâi ke-kui ngîam-sok căi;

the domestic discipline is very strict.

• 寂sok985408
• Silent; still; solitary.

sok-môk;

lonely.

ka-kī khĭa-khí sok-môk căi;

living all by yourself you must be lonely.

sok-sok môk-môk, bô̤ nâng sie phŭaⁿ;

very lonely with no companionship.

sok-cĕⁿ; sok-sok cĕⁿ;

very solitary.

• 屬sôk7804418
• To belong to; pertaining to; allied.

sôk tŏ̤ tī-tîang kò̤?

To whom does it belong?

sĭ i kâi chin sôk;

are his own kin.

cŭe bô̤ kîp i kâi ke-sôk;

the crime does not involve his subordinates.

sĭ tŏ̤ i kâi sôk ĕ;

it pertains to his inferiors.

sôk tŏ̤ siang-hó̤;

depends upon his associates.

sṳ̄ sôk líang lâng;

to act either way is equally difficult.

sôk-ŵn;

a subaltern.

sôk tī-tîang kẃn?

Under whose constrol is it?

cía sĭ sôk tŏ̤ lṳ́ kò̤;

this pertains to you.

sôk tŏ̤ i hâng ĕ;

subject to him.

cía ĭ sôk im a sĭ sôk îang?

Does this belong to the female or to the male principle iu nature?

tîe-ciu-hú káu sôk;

the Tie-Chiu Department has nine districts.

tău-thâi sĭ kẃn-lí jît-sì sôk;

the ntendant of Circuit governs twenty-four dependencies.

• 俗sôk82297
• What the common people desire or delight in; inelegant; uneducated; common, vulgar; the low and groveling business of life; the laity; the world.

sì-sôk;

manners of the times.

sôk ĕ cíe nâng cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

of the common people but few do thus.

sôk ūe;

common talk, brogue, argot, a conventional dialect different from the book language.

sôk ūe cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;

that is the way the unlearned talk.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ sía sĭ sôk sía;

that is the way it is commonly written by the uneducated.

lîah i hŵn sôk;

return him forcibly (from the priesthood) to common life.

i kâi sôk-ke sèⁿ sĭm-mûeh?

What is his laic surname?

iông-sôk kâi nâng;

the vulgar.

sîp sôk;

acquire vulgar habits.

cí kò̤ kâi hong-sôk ío hó̤;

the usages here are better.

i kâi nâng-īeⁿ seⁿ-lâi put sôk;

his appearance is not that of a common person.

khah sôk;

too commonplace.

sĭm sĭ sô̤-sôk;

is very base.

kṳ hieⁿ sôk sĭ cìeⁿ-se;

such are the customs of the village.

ak hong-sôk;

wicked ways.

cí kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ cū thut sôk;

this man acts as if he were free from the prejudices of the ignorant.

sôk gṳ́;

an aphorism, a proverb.

jîp hieⁿ sûi sôk;

when in Rome do as the Romans do.

• 續sôk82312015
• To succeed, to keep up, to join on; continuous.

sôk ău cò̤-nî?

What then follows?

lôk-sôk lâi ŭ jîeh cōi?

One after the other, how many have come?

lâi khṳ̀ m̄ ciap-sôk;

did not come and go continuously.

i cē ciap-sôk m̄ tîeh cū kang-khó chūe;

if the continuity is broken it is difficult to find the clue again.

cí kâi bó sĭ ău lâi lêng-ūaⁿ sôk-hîⁿ kâi;

this is a second wife.

• 贖sôk78115415
• To ransom; set free.

sôk cŭe;

set free from the consequences of sin.

sôk sin;

to manumit.

sôk hûe;

to ransom.

sôk tńg lâi;

to release from pawn or mortgage.

sôk siu ca-bó;

a manumited female slave.

cang kong sôk cŭe;

to make merit offset sin.

chíu-sôk;

to redeem.