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dictionary of the swatow dialect.

síe ti;: I, your junior; I, your humble client.
peh-sèⁿ khṳ̀ kìⁿ kuaⁿ sĭ cheng ka-kī cò̤ "síe ti";: common people who go before a magistrate speak of themselves as "humble selves." cí khí sṳ̄ sĭ ŭ ti; this is something that really happens.
sĭ ti;: what is really so; just that.
sĭ ti pĭen sĭ, hui ti pĭen hui, bô̤ thèng tàⁿ;: what is so state as being so, and what is not so state as not being so, and do not talk at random.

ti-tu keⁿ si;: the spider makes a web.
ti-tu tūi si;: the spider lets himself down on a thread.
ēng ti-tu tūi si, tūi lô̤h lâi;: came down by a rope.
ti-tu kit măng;: the spider weaves a web.
ti-tu măng;: a spider's web.
hó̤ lîah ti-tu khṳ̀ cuh tīo i kâi tâk;: catch spiders and set them to suck the poison from it.
cuh tâk lío ti-tu tîeh pàng cúi kò̤ khṳt i thò tâk;: after sucking out the poison the spiders must be put to the water that they may disgorge the poison.

tí in múaⁿ-tī-kò̤ ŭ châk cìaⁿ cáu khṳ̀ hṳ́-kò̤ pī;: as there were robbers every-where he fled there to avoid them.

tâu-tí sĭ cò̤-nî?: In the end what does it amount to?
i kâi tí-cṳ́ hó̤;: he is of good stock.
i sĭ sĭm-mih tí-cṳ́ chut sin?: What were his circumstances in early life?
cí kâi kūiⁿ sĭ sìu-câi tí, hṳ́ kâi sĭ kṳ́-jîu tí;: this district magistrate became such from the rank of Bachelor of Arts, and that one from the rank of Master of Arts.
cía mûeh bô̤ tí-cí;: this is endless.

i kâi ūe tàⁿ lâi ŭ kṳn-tí, m̄ pí thèng tàⁿ bô̤ kṳn bô̤ tí;: what ho says is well founded, and it is not as if he talked at random and without reason for what he says.
côiⁿ mâiⁿ ŭ kâi kṳn-tí tŏ̤ kò̤;: there was formerly a deep firm foundation laid underneath.

‮抵‬tí878645
To atone for; to sustain; to bear; to get what one deserves; to compound for a money payment by a lien on property.

lîah i khṳ̀ tí cŭe;: seize and take him to bear the penalty of his crime.
tí tit kùe a tí m̄ kùe?: Will it sustain it, or will it give way under it?
cía ūe sĭ lâi tó̤ tí-thak kâi;: he comes and says this in order to ward off the consequences.
cīeⁿ sìo tí cheng-chó̤ lío;: the foregoing accounts are settled in full by a lien.
khíong-ui i tí-tng m̄ cŭ;: fear he cannot bear up under it.
tí tīo jîet cōi?: How much has the debt been reduced by the lien given?

‮致‬tì581333
To cause to go, to give over to, to induce; to bring on; to hazard; to regulate; tending to; indicates causation; an end or aim.

tì-sái kàu i m̄ lâi;: was the cause of his failure to come.
íⁿ-tì jû chṳ́;: that is the occasion for its being thus.
in-ūi hìeⁿ-seⁿ cìaⁿ tì-kàu cìeⁿ-seⁿ;: it was in consequence of that, that this came to be so.
úa thóiⁿ i cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ sĭm sĭ tì-ì;: I see that he has his mind fixed upon this.
i tì-ì tŏ̤ cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄;: he is bent upon this.
i àiⁿ hó̤, hẃn tì-kàu m̄-hó̤;: he meant well, but it turned out badly.
cieⁿ-seⁿ i cū tì mīaⁿ;: in so doing he hazards his life.
tăi tì;: a resume; in general.
tăi-tì ŏi cò̤ tit;: it will do in a general way.
in-ūi i m̄ tŏ̤ cū tì gō;: it was through his being absent that the project came to naught.
úa īa sĭ ŭ tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤, cū bŏi tì gō sṳ̄;: if I had been there the thing would not have fallen through.
i tì ŭ sĭm mih pēⁿ-cèng?: What disease has he?
i kâi pēⁿ sĭ tì kú kâi;: his ailment is one that he has had a long time.
cía cṳ sĭ kàng-kìu kek mûeh tì cai kâi sṳ̄;: this book inquires into the nature of things and applies the knowledge to final causes; this is a philosophy.
cí kò̤ kâi kéng-tì sĭm hó̤;: the arrangement of things here is very fine.
sĭm ŭ ì-tì; ŭ ì ŭ tì;: presents evidences of design.
cò̤ lâi ŭ ì-tì;: is made according to a system.

‮置‬tì601228
To establish; to make firm; to place; to constitute; to arrange; to determine; to decide; to buy; to lay in goods.