# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/tho
### tho

* 土thó920320
* Earth; ground; lands; territory; soil; a region.

#### i sĭ m̄ hôkcúithó;

    the climate does not agree with him.

#### tàⁿ cò̤ thó-ūe cò̤-nî tàⁿ?

    How would you say this in common parlance?

#### tàⁿ lâi hŵn-lío kâⁿ thó-thâm;

    what he says has still an admixture of words from the local dialect.

#### thó im sĭ cò̤-nî tàⁿ?

    What is the local pronunciation of this word?

#### hṳ́-kò̤ kâi hong-thó nâng-chêng căi-seⁿ-īeⁿ?

    What are the manners and customs there?

#### cía sĭ in-kò̤ kâi thó súaⁿ;

    these are the native products there.

#### kak chù to sāi ŭ thó-tī îa;

    each place has its local deities.

#### i sĭ hŭam tîeh thó-sîn;

    he has offended the god of the land.

#### ŭ hĕ thó tîeh s(illegible text)a thó;

    if you make a vow to the divinity that presides over a particular spot, you must pay the vow thereto.

#### sĭ tô̤h tī cêk jît tŏng thó?

    What day has been selected as a lucky one for beginning the excavation?

#### i kâi pî-thó m̄-hó̤;

    his appetite is not good.

#### cí īeⁿ îeh ŏi pó thó k(illegible text)en pî;

    this medicine creates an appetite.

#### nâng sí cū àiⁿ kui thó;

    when a man man dies he returns to dust.

#### i kâi thó-cheⁿ seⁿ lâi ngía căi;

    the end of his nose is very exquisitely formed.
* 偏thó68999
* Bent on; inclined to; on one side.

#### i thó àiⁿ, úa thó m̆;

    he is bent upon it, and I am determined not to do it.

#### i li thó hĕng hṳ́ kâi nâng, úa li thó sieh hṳ́ kâi nâng;

    he is inclined to dislike that person, and I am inclined to like him.

#### cêk nâng cîⁿ-ngṳ̂n thó cōi li bô̤ sì-lâk, cêk nâng sì-lâk thó tōa li bô̤ cíⁿ-ngṳ̂n;

    one had money without influence and the other had great influence but no money.

#### i thó àiⁿ phah i;

    she is determined to whip him. ​
* 凸thó892174
* To bulge; protuberant.

#### mâk thó-thó;

    protruding eyes.

#### i kâi tó-câi thó chut lâi;

    he has rupture at the navel.

#### i kâi mâk sĭ thó-cu, m̄ hó̤ ui;

    his eye has an extruded lens, an is incurable.

#### ŭ kò̤ thó chut li pó kò̤ nap jîp;

    the places where it bulges out will make up for those where it juts in.
* 兔thò920106
* A hare or rabbit.

#### phah cêk ciah thò;

    shot a hare.

#### i sĭ sìe thò kâi;

    he was born in the year of the hare.

#### thò hâu;

    the hair of the rabbit, used for fine pencils or brushes.
* 吐thò920303
* To vomit; to disgorge; to spit out; to disclose; to tell all.

#### cīeⁿ li thò, ĕ li sìa;

    vomiting and purging simultaneously.

#### sĭ cŏ-jîen cū thò sìa kâi;

    a sudden attack of vomiting with diarrhea.

#### cîah lô̤h khṳ̀ cū thò chut lâi;

    threw it up as soon as he had taken it.

#### cîh thò kàu tn̂g-tn̂g chut lâi;

    run your tongue out as far as possible.

#### úa thiaⁿ i sĭ pùaⁿ thun pùaⁿ thò kâi ūe;

    I think he kept back a part, and told a part.

#### hía ūe thun-thun thò-thò m̄ sĭ tît-tît cū tàⁿ;

    that is concealing some of the facts and disclosing others, it is not telling a straight-forward story.

#### i hó̤-hó̤ sĭ-sĭ cò̤ ŏi áu-thò?

    How is it that he gags and vomits when there is no unusual cause for it?

#### thò hueh;

    bleed at the lungs.

#### thò kàu kŭa táⁿ chut lâi;

    threw up bile.

#### phīⁿ tîeh cū thò;

    the smell of it makes me vomit.

#### i m̄ khéng thò cin chêng;

    he is unwilling to disclose the real state of the case.

#### ūe-ūe thó;

    retch and vomit.

#### cí īeⁿ îeh ŏi cí thò;

    this medicine will stop the vomiting.

#### i kâi cîⁿ cîah m̄ lô̤h lêng-ūaⁿ thò chut lâi hâiⁿ nâng;

    he could not make way with the money, and so disgorged and returned it.

#### cang îeh kẁn i thò;

    take medicine to produce vomiting.

#### àiⁿ thò bŏi thò;

    am nauseated but cannot vomit.
* 塗thô9183210
* Earth; soil; mud; clods; dirt.

#### tàⁿ thô;

    to carry earth in baskets slung at the ends of a pole over the shoulder.

#### chîeⁿ sĭ thô chîeⁿ;

    the wall is a mud wall.

#### co̤h thô sîaⁿ;

    build amud village.

#### thôu ûi;

    an enclosing wall made of earth.

#### thô khò;

    a cellar.

#### thô kang;

    a sexton; to work in earth.

#### bói kúi sin thô ang-kíaⁿ khṳt a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ hùe thit-thô̤;

    buy some clay dolls for the children to play with.

#### líu cĕ suaⁿ thô lâi tĭen hó̤ a sĭ líu hái thô̤ lâi tĭen hó̤?

    Shall I dig the earth to fill it in with from the hills or from the shore?

#### cía suaⁿ kâi thô-sek hó̤;

    the soil on these hills appears good.

#### cí kò̤ kâi thô kien-jŭn căi;

    the soil here is very mellow.

#### thô-láng;

    artificial mill-stones, made of earth, and used in hulling rice.
* 送thō8321626
* To send forward by the pressure of a liquid.

#### thō îeh-îⁿ, àiⁿ cang sĭm-mûeh thō?

    What shall I take after the pills to send them down?

#### cá-sîn li cang tăⁿ-ĭam-thng thō;

    when I took them before I rinsed them down with water that had been boiled and salted.

#### ēng kieⁿ-thng thō;

    take ginger-tea to send it down with.

#### chong cho̤h nêk-chò̤-thng lâi thō pn̄g;

    make some broth to assist the rice in its course down the gullet.