Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thwn
thwn
- thŵn kà;
- to promulgate doctrines.
- thŵn tău;
- to preach.
- thŵn sĭu;
- to perpetuate.
- thŵn bŭn;
- tradition.
- thŵn sueh;
- a report.
- thŵn ūe;
- a legend.
- thŵn céng;
- to propagate seed.
- có thŵn kâi;
- handed down from ancestors.
- pì thŵn kâi huap;
- a recipe pivately handed down.
- thŵn lĕng;
- to transmit orders.
- thŵn ūi;
- to transmit the throne.
- thŵn ūi khṳt a-tĭ tîeh, a sĭ thŵn khṳt kíaⁿ tîeh?
- Was the throne transmitted to a younger brother, or to a son?
- thŵn ke-pó̤;
- an heirloom.
- thŵn sîn;
- transfer the expression.
- thŵn kàu taⁿ jîeh cōi tō̤?
- Through how many generations has it been handed down?
- khut i thŵn tāⁿ khṳ̀;
- was erroneously transmitted by him.
- cêk nâng thŵn hṳ, peh nâng thŵn sît;
- what one man tells falsely a hundred repeat as the truth.
- cêk nâng thŵn kùe cêk nâng;
- passed on from one person to another.
- cêk chíu thŵn kùe cêk chíu;
- sent on from hand to hand.
- cīeⁿ tō̤ thŵn lo̤ĥ ē tō̤;
- handed down from former generations.
- thŵn keng a-pún;
- a court crier.
- ŭ thŵn, bô̤ thŵn;
- has or has not been reported.
- ke lăi cêk thŵn hûa-khì;
- the family is altogether harmonious, having all interests in common.
- thŵn-thŵn ûi cŭ;
- hemmed in on all sides.
- thŵn-thŵn-îⁿ;
- spherical.
- i sĭ chēng thŵn-lêng kâi pó-hôk;
- he wears a robe having a coiled dragon embroidered on the breast and back.
- thŵn-hṳ̂;
- a turtle.
- cût bí thŵn;
- dumplings made of glutinous rice.
- tîam thŵn;
- sweet dumplings.
chài thŵn; dumplings with forcemeat inside.