Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/sut

by Adele Marion Fielde

sut

• 恤sut825616
• To feel for, to commiserate.

bú-sut;

to comfort, to solace, to relieve; to show pity in a practical way.

bú-sut kàu i hó̤-hó̤;

relieve her needs in such fashion as to render her comfortable.

bú-sut kàu i kâi sim sí;

bestow sympathy until his need of it ends.

bô̤ khṳ̀ bú-sut i;

did not go and express any pity for him.

iu-sut;

excessive compassion.

• 颭sut441825
• To press upon as the wind does in blowing.

kî pun huang sut lío phîak-phîak-kìe;

the flag, blown by the wind, flutters noisily.

huang li-li sut;

the wind keeps flapping it.

khṳt huang sut phùa khṳ̀;

torn by the the blast.

cúi khṳt huang cē sut, éng cū phû;

when the water is blown upon by the wind, the waves rise.

• 屑sut798447
• A fragment, a crumb, a bit.

cêk sut-kíaⁿ;

a little.

sut kíaⁿ-ni tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;

only the least bit.

• 糠sut32011911
• Sawdust.

kṳ̀-sut;

sawdust.

sĭ châ sut hó̤ a sam sut hó̤?

Which is the better the sawdust from hard wood or from pine?

thâu-khak eng kṳ̀-sut;

has his head spinkled with sawdust; has put on an appearance of being very busy at his trade.

• 戌sut825622
• The eleventh of the twelve branches.

sut sî;

from 7 to 9 o'clock P.M.

sut gûeh;

the eleventh month in the cycle of twelve.

• 蟀sut77414211
• A cricket.

tek-sut;

a cricket.

kă tek-sut;

to fight crickets.

cháu sut;

a cricket that lives in the grass.

• 抶sut73645
• To flog; to beat.

khîa tîn-tîo sut i;

take a rattan and flog him.

cang chûe lí-kẃn sut;

took a club and kept beating him.

• 術sût7781445
• The way of doing a thing or of effecting an object; an art; a plan; a trick, a device, a hocus-pocus; a mystery, usually something magical or demoniacal; the black art.

huap-sût;

magical rules; sup superstitious rites.

i sĭ ŭ io sût kâi ĭeⁿ;

it appears to be some magical trick.

sṳ-bû sîa sût;

the arts of sorcerers.

sût-sṳ̆;

a conjurer.

put hâk bô̤ sût;

without practice no art can be acquired.

put lŭn sĭ tī cêk ĭeⁿ sût àiⁿ ô̤h kàn ceng sĭ o̤h;

whatever be the art to be acquired, it is difficult to learn it thoroughly.

• 述sût7791625
• To follow another's steps; to narrate.

sŭ-sût kàu mêng-pêh;

state it clearly.

cía sĭ sût i kâi ūe cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;

this is quoting what he said.

pĕ cak, kíaⁿ sût;

the son follows the practices of his father.

• 降sût3641706
• To swoop, dart, or pitch downward.

ciah eng sṳ̂t lô̤h lâi tìo koi-kínⁿ;

a hawk swooped down and carried off a chicken.

i tŏ̤ hṳ́ téng thóiⁿ tíaⁿ-tīaⁿ cū sût lô̤h lâi;

he fixes his gaze on it from above and then darts down.

i tin-tò̤ thâu sût lô̤h khṳ̀;

he pitched down head foremost.