Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/keⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

keⁿ

• 耕keⁿ3221274
• To till; to cultivate; to plow.

keⁿ châng;

to cultivate the fields.

keⁿ co̤h kâi nâng;

farm laborers.

keⁿ gû;

cattle used in tilling the soil.

cîh keⁿ;

to plow with the tongue; to teach for a living.

• 織keⁿ7012012
• To weave.

keⁿ pò;

to weave cloth.

keⁿ-pò kui;

a loom.

keⁿ khṳ̀ ìuⁿ căi;

it is very finely woven.

keⁿ ŭ hue-jī;

woven in figures.

• 經keⁿ4041207
• The warp of a web in the loom; what runs lengthwise; the meridians of longitude.

si keⁿ pò hūi;

silk warp and linen woof.

cang si lâi cò̤ tît kâi keⁿ, cang mîⁿ-se lâi cò̤ hûeⁿ kâi hūi;

take silk for the warp, and cotton for the woof.

lô̤-keⁿ;

a compass.

i pì kâi lô̤-keⁿ khṳ̀ thóiⁿ suaⁿ;

he took a compass and went to locate a grave.

• 羹keⁿ3221239
• A thick broth; pottage; porridge.

cò̤ kâi keⁿ pn̄g;

make rice porridge; dainties offered to parents on their birthdays.

hŏi-keⁿ;

crab soup.

câp gûeh keⁿ chài côi;

there are all sorts of edibles in the tenth month.

• 更keⁿ321733
• A watch of the night, two hours in length.

saⁿ keⁿ pùaⁿ mêⁿ;

in the dead of night.

ang keⁿ;

the first watch, beginning at dark.

lṳ́ cò̤-nî khṳ̀ kàu sì ngŏ keⁿ?

Why were you gone till near morning?

i jī keⁿ cū ût;

in the second watch, between nine and eleven o'clock, he went to sleep.

sîaⁿ-lâu sùi phùaⁿ keⁿ-kó hŵn căi;

though the tower be dilapidated the watchman is still there.

• 庚keⁿ321535
• The seventh of the ten stems; years.

i nŏ̤ nâng tâng keⁿ;

the two are of the same age.

lṳ́ kùi keⁿ?

How old are you?

sĭm-mih nî keⁿ poih jī?

What are the eight cyclic characters which express the time of his birth?

• 鯁kéⁿ3221957
• To stick in the throat.

kéⁿ tîeh hṳ̂ kut;

got a fish-bone in his throat.

i sĭ khṳt ah kut kéⁿ tîeh;

he was choked by a bit of bone from the duck.

kéⁿ tŏ̤ âu-lêng kò̤, bŏi tit lô̤h;

stuck in hia throat and would not go down.

kut tîeh cai níu tīo, m̄-hó̤ khṳt i kéⁿ tîeh;

you must pick the bones out (after you have put the food in your mouth) and not get choked by them.

i kâi cîah lío īa m̄-ùi kéⁿ tîeh;

he takes it and does not fear its sticking in his throat; he takes what he likes without regard to future consequences.

• 梗kéⁿ322757
• The petiole; the midrib of a leaf.

tìam kit kéⁿ;

sweet lime stems.

cí īeⁿ îeh sĭ àiⁿ ēng kéⁿ a sĭ àiⁿ ēng hîeh?

Is the leaf or the petiole made use of for this medicine?

• 逕kèⁿ407607
• A by-way; a path; a short cut.

khui cêk tîo lō-kèⁿ;

open a road.

lṳ́ khṳ̀ thóiⁿ, thóiⁿ sĭm-mih kèⁿ-lō̤;

you go and see what sort of path there is.

cía múa-tī-kò̤ kâi lō-kèⁿ phe-phah lâi cū hó̤;

the roads about here are well planned.

cèng saⁿ kèⁿ hue;

planted three rows of flowers.