Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ge

by Adele Marion Fielde

gé

• 牙gé1066920
• A prong; tines.

cí ki che kúi gé?

How many prongs has this fork?

àiⁿ saⁿ gé a àiⁿ sì gé?

Do you want three tines or four?

cò̤ cêk gé cêk gé;

make it pronged.

• 衙gê10671447
• The house or office of a ruler; a court; a tribunal.

gê-mn̂g;

a Chinese official establishment; a yamun; a public court.

gê hîah;

official messengers.

pâi gê;

open the court.

bûn bú gê-mn̂g;

civil and military tribunals.

gê lăi;

belonging to the official staff.

kuaⁿ gê;

official bureau.

chwn gê;

an employé at the yamun.

lí gê-mn̂g sṳ̄;

exercise the functions of an official.

lău gê-mn̂g;

an old habitué of the court.

gê cù;

an official weevil, a mercenary officer.

• 牙gê1066920
• Tusks; large teeth; molars.

chĭeⁿ gê;

elephants' tusks.

gê tṳ̄;

ivory chop-sticks.

gê jío;

teeth and claws.

ēng i cò̤ gê jío;

use him as a cat's paw.

gê-chiam khí-thak;

a bunch of toilet picks.

kă gê chiet chí;

gnash the teeth.

hwt gê;

to teeth.

chit cŏ̤, poih pê, káu hwt gê;

sit alone at seven months, creep at eight, and teeth at nine.

tṳ-ko̤ gê;

a wild boar's tusk.

bà gê;

tushes.

si-kùe ùi bà gê;

watermelons fear prominent teeth.

gê kṳn kă kín;

the teeth set.

gê-kwn kín-pĭ;

lockjaw.

• 斒斕gê-lang501
• Striped, variegated in color.

gê-lang so̤h;

colored cotton cord, sold in many colors.

gê-lang pĭⁿ;

colored braids.

• 蜈蚣gê-kang1063
• A centipede.

cheⁿ kha gê-kang, âng kha gê-kang;

green footed and red footed centipedes.

gê-kang-kíaⁿ;

a young centipede.

gê-kang kî;

a long narrow flag.

gê-kang îu;

oil in which centipedes have been soaked, used as medicine.

gê-kang kă koi-bó̤ ù, cîⁿ-lêng kă khí tōa chù;

if a centipede bites you poultice it with a chicken, but if a lizard bites you have your coffin made.

• 椰gê1079759
• The cocoa tree.

gê-cí;

a cocoa-nut.

gê-cí khak;

cocoa-nut shells.

gê-cí nêk;

the meat of a cocoa-nut.

gê-cí-sui;

cocoa-nut husk.

gê-cí mô̤hⁿ;

the brown film on the surface of the meat of a cocoa-nut.

gê-cí cúi; gê-cí cíu;

the milk of a cocoa-nut.

• 芽gê10671404
• A germ; a sprout.

hwt gê; pauh gê; piuh gê;

to sprout.

tāu gê, bêh gê, kok gê;

bean, wheat, and paddy sprouts.

• 砑gē10671424
• To polish as by a calendering stone.

i kâi kim gē lâi ngía căi;

his gold is very finely burnished.

cang hue-sî gē kàu kng-kng;

smooth it with the trowel till it shines.

chîeⁿ gē lâi pêⁿ;

the wall is made very smooth.

má-láu gē;

a quartz stone used in smoothing plastered walls.