Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thek

by Adele Marion Fielde

thek

• 陟thek701707
• To mount, to ascend, to advance.

thek cĭeⁿ suaⁿ-téng;

to ascend a mountain.

i thek kàu hṳ́ suaⁿ-téng téng;

he went up to the topmost peak of the mountain.

thek būe kàu pùaⁿ suaⁿ cū bŏi kîaⁿ;

before I had gone half way to the top of the hill I was unable to proceed.

thek peh gūa keh tâh-pō-câng;

mounted over a hundred steps on the stairway.

thek tùi thui kò̤, thek cĭeⁿ chù-téng;

go up on the roof by a ladder.

kháu kàu cí cêk kùe hŵn ŭ sĭm-mih thut thek a bô̤?

After passing this examination will he get promotion or not?

• 敕thek72667
• What is done by special command of the Emperor.

thek cṳ;

credentials; letters patent.

cêk nâng pì ìu, cêk nâng pì thek-cṳ;

one person bears the seals, and one the credentials.

khí cêk kâi thek-cṳ lâu;

build a charter house.

tìn-tang sāi cêk kò̤ thek-hong-pâi;

in the centre set a tablet allowed by special permission of the emperor.

kài thek;

royal prohibitions or precepts.

thek kîaⁿ kak ciu-hú;

promulgated by the Emperor's order, throughout all the Departments.

thek mĕng;

by Imperial com-mand.

• 檔thek8597513
• A run, brace or cross-piece.

i kâi iⁿ-thek lut khṳ̀;

the rung has fallen out of the chair.

khĭa tŏ̤ kau-íⁿ thek;

stand on the rung of the chair.

chn̂g-thek tàu m̄ kín;

the cross-pieces near the lower end of the legs of the table are not mortised in tightly.

mîn-chn̂g thek;

braces between the legs of a bed-stead.

• 畜thek981025

thek-seⁿ;

domestic animals.

thek-seⁿ kíaⁿ, m̄ hó̤ căi;

a horrid little brute.

àu thek-seⁿ!

You nasty brute!

• 飭thek721844
• To enjoin on or instruct, as a superior does a subordinate; to command.

chíaⁿ kuaⁿ thek che khṳ̀ khàm;

ask the magistrate to dispatch a constable to examine into the matter.

hú-tău íⁿ-keng thek ti-kūiⁿ khṳ̀ phōiⁿ;

the prefect has already directed the district magistrate to take up the case and adjudicate it.

kuaⁿ-hú ngîam thek tī-pó̤ sòi-sim khṳ̀ chê-chip;

the officer strictly charged the alderman to carefully inquire into it.

• 騭thek6818710
• To cause to progress; to promote.

im-thek;

a good deed, springing from real love; unostentatious benevolence; a beneficient action secretly performed.

i sît-că hó̤ im-thek;

he is really philanthropic.

mâk ĕ īa-sĭ phû ŭ im-thek hûn cū hó̤ tói tīo cía cai-eh;

if a sign of real goodness appears it will debar the approaching evil from coming nearer.

im-thek bûu;

exhortations to benevolence.

• 禿thek9231152
• Hairless; bald.

thek lṳ̂;

a hairless mule, a term of contempt for a Buddhist priest.

• 倜儻thek-tháng903
• A law to one's self; worth of promotion.

pí pât nâng lêng-gūa thek-tháng;

has a more distinguished appearance than other people.