Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/toiⁿ
toiⁿ
- tóiⁿ châng;
- to mortgage a field.
- tóiⁿ chù;
- mortgage a house.
- cẃn tóiⁿ;
- to sub-mortgage.
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- A consecutive rank or place; placed before numbers it forms the ordinal; to grade; to arrange in a series.
- tŏiⁿ it, tŏiⁿ jī, tŏiⁿ saⁿ;
- first, second, third, or firstly, secondly, thirdly.
- tŏiⁿ it mîaⁿ;
- the name at the head of the list.
- i pâi tŏ̤ tŏiⁿ kúi kò̤?
- What is its order in the series?
- lîet chṳ̀ tŏiⁿ-lîet hó̤ lío;
- the place which each is to occupy in the series is already assigned.
- tŏiⁿ kúi hō̤?
- Of what grade is it?
- lîet téng tŏiⁿ;
- ranged in the higest rank.
- ŭ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng kio bô̤ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng m̄ tâng;
- those who had a standing in the literary ranks before entering into public life, are unlike those who had not such a standing.
- m̂ng tŏiⁿ m̄ hó̤ khĭa;
- do not stand on the door sill.
- tōa ke mn̂g tŏiⁿ;
- a broad sill.
- pak tīo mn̂g tŏiⁿ;
- to take away the door sill.
- huah mn̂g tŏiⁿ;
- step over the door sill.
- cîhe mn̂g tŏiⁿ;
- stone threshold.
- i peh mn̂g tŏiⁿ peh m̄ kùe;
- he cannot get over the sill.
- tŏiⁿ hŏ;
- tenants.
- châng tŏiⁿ;
- lessees of land.
- hng tŏiⁿ;
- the lessee of a garden.
- chù tŏiⁿ;
- the tenant of a house.
- phò tŏiⁿ;
- the one who rents and occupies a shop.
- tŏiⁿ sĭ tī-tîang?
- Who is the tenant?
- hóⁿ tŏiⁿ;
- a masterful tenant.
- tío tŏiⁿ;
- eject a tenant.
- hŭo tŏiⁿ;
- give information to tenants of a change of landlords.
- kú tŏiⁿ sêng cieh;
- and old tenant becomes an old settler.
- cheⁿ-tōiⁿ sĭ cheⁿ cò̤ kâi;
- indigo is made from the indigo plant.
- îeⁿ tōiⁿ;
- prussian blue.
- lâm tōiⁿ;
- indigo blue.
- tōiⁿ kng;
- a blue dye-pot.
- tōiⁿ hue;
- the indigo as it floats on the liquor.
- tōiⁿ tái;
- dregs in the bottom of the indigo vats.
- cheⁿ cìm tŏ̤ hâk tói, àu kú, cū cò̤ tōiⁿ;
- the indigo plant, leaves and stalks, after being put into lime water and long soaked, becomes indigo.
- tōiⁿ tháng;
- the vats in which indigo is made.
- cêk cō̤ keng-tōiⁿ; kim lŵn tōiⁿ;
- a royal palace.
- thài-cṳ́ ûang-îa cheng-cò̤ tōiⁿ-ĕ;
- crown princes are address as "Your Highness."
- tōa tōiⁿ; cìaⁿ tōiⁿ;
- the main building in a temple.
- côiⁿ tōiⁿ, ău tōiⁿ, phien tōiⁿ;
- the building in the front, at the back, or on the side, in a temple.
- cí īeⁿ pò ío tōiⁿ;
- this sort of cloth wears better.
- tōiⁿ châ;
- hard wood.
- cía sam tōiⁿ, hía sam phàⁿ;
- this deal is of compact fiber, while that is light and porous.
- tōiⁿ kùe thih;
- more durable than iron.
- kàⁿ-bó̤ phû būe kàu, khah tōiⁿ;
- the yeast has not fermented in it sufficiently, and it is too heavy.
- cí khí cîeh tōiⁿ căi;
- this sort of stone is very hard.
- chîeⁿ ceng lâi tōiⁿ-tōiⁿ;
- the wall is pounded very hard.
- i kâi chù khí lâi bŏi tōiⁿ;
- his house is not strongly built.