Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mit

by Adele Marion Fielde

mit

• 滅mît5938510
• To destroy, as by fire; to obliterate; to exterminate; to cut off.

mît-tīo i kâi kok;

destroy their kingdom.

chau-mît cí cho̤h húiⁿ lūi;

exterminate these outlaws.

mît-côk i kâi céng lūi;

cut off his posterity.

mît kàu bô̤ ciah;

destroy so as to leave no trace.

cṳ̆ chú mît-bûang;

brought ruin on himself.

• 泯mît598855
• To put an end to.

tîm-mît;

utterly destroy.

tîm-mît nâng kâi sìn;

destroy people's confidence.

tîm-mît nâng kâi ngṳ̂n;

make way with people’s money.

tîm-mît khṳ̀ jîeh kú, kàu taⁿ cìaⁿ chut lâi;

was lost for a very long time, and has now come to light again.

• 默mît6052034
• Meditation; to commit to memory.

mît-sī;

a spiritual revelation.

mît sía jŭ;

edicts written from memory.

mît cṳ;

books commited to memory.

mît lâi bŏi tāⁿ;

recited from memory without mistake.

tng sî lṳ́ īu mît-mît, bô̤ ngân;

at times when you are lost in thought.

mît līam;

recite from memory.

• 密mît596408
• Secret; privately.

ki mît;

the occult cause.

mît-mît khṳ̀ cò̤;

went and did it privately.

cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ mît cū kōi sîap-lāu;

what is done other than secretly easily leaks out.