Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tim

by Adele Marion Fielde

tim

• 熅tim11448610
• To warm up food in a pot.

khîeh lô̤h lô khṳ̀ tim: tim sie-sie cìaⁿ hó̤ cîah;

put it on the stove and warm it up: make it very hot and then it will be delectable.

cíu tim lío m̄ cai thóiⁿ, khṳt i ûak khṳ̀;

set the whiskey on to heat it, and it sprang ablaze when I was not looking to it.

cíu-pâng màiⁿ tim îeⁿ khṳ̀;

do not melt the wine pitcher when heating the wine.

tim chài;

to warm up food left from a previous meal.

• 鴆tim181964
• A bird like the secretary falcon, with a long black neck and red bill; it eats snakes, and is supposed to be so noxious that fish die where it drinks, the grass withers around its nest, and its feathers steeped in spirits make a virulent poison.

i ka-kì hôk tim cíu cṳ̆-cĭn;

he drank a dose of deadly poison and killed himself.

• 沉tîm20854
• To sink; to quash; lost, destroyed; ruined.

cêk kâi tîm li, cêk kâi phû;

one sank and the other floated.

cûn tîm lô̤h khṳ̀;

the boat sank.

pùaⁿ phû pùaⁿ tîm;

half in and half out of water.

i tîm-mût i kâi mûeh-kĭaⁿ;

he made way with her things.

i kâi pēⁿ tîm tăng;

he is very sick.

tîm tŏ̤ cúi tói;

sank to the bottom.

cí kâi thim-hieⁿ ŏi tîm cúi kâi;

this garu-wood sinks in water.

• 朕tĭm181306
• The royal We, Ourself.

hûang-tì cheng i ka-kī cheng cò̤ tĭm;

the emperor in speaking of himself says We.