Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tit

by Adele Marion Fielde

tit

• 得tit872608
• To attain; to get the object of one's wishes; may, can, able to be done; after another verb it often expresses the potential mood, or a form of the past tense; to become; to gain.

tit tîeh;

gained; got.

bŏi tit tîeh;

unable to get.

àiⁿ, kâi àiⁿ, bŏi tit tîeh;

as for wanting it, I want it, but I can't get it.

cí-hûe tit ì căi;

just now things are quite to my mind.

i cē tit cîⁿ cū bōi-pàng;

if he can gain money by it he will let the culprit escape.

put tit;

unattainable; very difficult.

pa pat tit;

greatly and vainly desire.

úa pa put tit ŏi cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

there is nothing I so much desire.

cò̤ tit lâi;

it can be done.

cò̤ m̄ tit;

it is not feasible.

ŏi cò̤ tit; ŏi nîn cò̤ tit;

it will do.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ cò̤ tit;

that will not answer the purpose.

kîaⁿ tit-khṳ̀, a kîaⁿ m̄ khṳ̀?

Can you walk thus far or not?

i cìeⁿ-seⁿ sĭ ŭ só̤ tit a m̄ sĭ?

He gets something thereby does he not?

cía pēⁿ ni ŏi tit hó̤ mē?

Is this disease curable?

cí tîo lō ŏi tit kùe a bŏi tit kùe?

Is this road passable or not?

put lêng tit;

is not to be done.

put tit íⁿ;

will he, nill he; no other way; cannot do otherwise.

sĭ put tit íⁿ cò̤ kâi;

did thus because no other course was open to him.

cí kâi tàⁿ tit ūe, hṳ́ kâi tàⁿ m̄ tit ūe;

this is something worth hearing, while that is not.

có̤ khṳ̀ tit chíu căi;

made so as to be very handy or very easily wielded.

căi tit ŏi?

How can I?

bŏi tit táng;

cannot wait.

i nŏ̤ nâng sĭm sĭ siang tit;

the two agree very well together.

lío m̄ tit;

there is no end to it.

i jím tit cŭ a jím m̄ cŭ?

Can he endure it or not?

cía to bŏi nîn năi tit;

this is not to be borne.

tit tîeh i kâi sìn;

got his letter.

m̄ kìⁿ tit; m̄ it-tit;

forgot.

lṳ́ it-tit mē? kìⁿ-tit mē?

Do you recollect it?

cîah m̄ tit cìeⁿ cōi;

cannot eat so much.

kio tit tîeh pó̤-pùe hìeⁿ-seⁿ;

like getting a treasure.

sùe put tit cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

must infallibly do this.

sìo bŏi tit ŵn;

innumerable.

cîah bŏi tit lío;

more then can be eaten.

cí kâi sĭ tit sim kâi nâng;

this is one who wins regard.

tit hok;

to obtain good.

tit tîeh tōa hok-khì;

attain great happiness.

i uaⁿ tit cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ?

How can he say that?

sueh tit khṳ̀ mē?

Can you explain it?

peh tit khui;

can open it.

cò̤ tit lô̤h;

can do it.

taⁿ tit khí;

can carry it.

teh i tit tîo;

can hold it down.

• 直tît701093
• Straight; direct; upright; outspoken; true; just; exactly; in writing, a perpendicular stroke.

tît tău;

self-evident doctrines.

chông tît tău kîaⁿ;

act according to what is manifestly right.

i sĭ tong-tît kâi nâng;

he is an honest man.

tît tàⁿ bô̤ pau-châng;

tell it in a straight forward way, without any concealment.

tît-tît tàⁿ chut lâi;

told it bluntly.

hun-pîet sĭ hui khiok tît;

discriminate between fact and fable, the devious and the straight.

i kâi sim cìaⁿ-tît;

he is honest hearted.

cêk tît jîp khṳ̀;

go straight in.

tît-tît kîaⁿ khṳ̀;

go straight on.

cêk tît cū lâi kàu cí-kò̤;

came directly here.

hâng tît cûah ŭ cêk ûe lō;

by coming straight across, the journey is shortened by one half.

tît kau pàng tît cúi;

a straight ditch discharges a straight stream of water.

pêh tît, bŏi wn-khien;

perfectly straight and without crooks.

pêh tît nâng tàⁿ pêh tît ūe;

a straight forward person uses plain speech.

thó tît kâi nâng;

a blunt person.

khĭa pàng kò̤ kha tît chíu tît;

stand with your legs and arms straight.

chun tît kha;

straighten your leg.

pàng tît chíu;

straighten your arm.

ngĕ tît kâi nâng;

a sturdy, honest person.

tît-kùe cìⁿ, ngĕ kùe thih;

straighter than an arrow, and stiffer than iron.

tît lô̤h;

directly down.

tît khṳ̀;

went by the shortest cut.

tît khí;

straight up.

siu tît;

comb out straight.

tô̤h tît;

disentangle.

thîap tît;

pile up perpendicularly.

ut tît;

iron out smooth.

kîap tît-tît;

smooth it out straight.