# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/gueh
### gûeh

* 月gûeh1129740
* Moon; month; monthly.

#### gûeh-nîe;

    the moon.

#### gûeh-bâi;

    the crescent moon.

#### gûeh chut;

    the moon rises.

#### gûeh lô̤h;

    the moon sets.

#### gûeh khih;

    the moon wanes.

#### gûeh îⁿ;

    the moon waxes.

#### gûeh sîh;

    an eclipse of the moon.

#### gûeh hôk îⁿ;

    the eclipse ceases.

#### kìu gûeh;

    ceremonies to preserve the moon during an eclipse.

#### cí kâi gûeh tōa a sòi?

    Has this month thirty days or only twenty-nine?

#### cêk nî câp-jī kâi gûeh;

    one year is twelve months.

#### saⁿ nî kâi jūn gûeh;

    there is an intercalary month once in three years.

#### gûeh-gûeh ŭ nâng lâi;

    some one comes every month.

#### àng gûeh sǹg-sìo;

    settle accounts monthly.

#### co cîⁿ sĭ lŭn gûeh a sĭ lŭn nî kâi?

    Is the rent paid by the month ​or by the year?

#### gûeh kng căi;

    the moonlight is very bright.

#### ŭ gûeh;

    there is a moon.

#### thóiⁿ-kìⁿ gûeh-hûa;

    see the halo around the moon.

#### gûeh phek;

    the dark body of the moon.

#### gûeh thâu, gûeh pùaⁿ, gûeh búe;

    the first, the middle, and the end of the month.

#### hó̤ gûeh sek;

    bright moonlight.

#### cīeⁿ kâi gûeh;

    last month.

#### cīeⁿ saⁿ kâi gûeh;

    three months ago.

#### cí kâi gûeh;

    this month.

#### ĕ kâi gûeh;

    next month.

#### ke nŏ̤ kâi gûeh;

    in two months more.

#### kâi gūa gûeh;

    over a month.

#### kâi gūa-gūa gûeh;

    a good deal more than a month.

#### côiⁿ kâi gûeh;

    month before last.

#### cêk khùi saⁿ kâi gûeh;

    one season is three months.

#### kîaⁿ gûeh-keng;

    to menstruate.

#### kàu gûeh lío;

    to come to the full time.

#### kùe gûeh lío;

    to pass the expected time for confinement.

#### gûeh sìn, gûeh cúi, gûeh sṳ̄;

    the menses.

#### pĭ gûeh;

    suppression of the menses.

#### cò̤ múaⁿ gûeh;

    to receive congratulations a month after childbirth.

#### hŵn-lío gûeh cháu cíⁿ;

    still irregular in the monthly periods.

#### cí kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ ío cíⁿ gûeh, hṳ́ kâi ío sek gûeh;

    this infant is still younger than that one.

#### kâi lâng gûeh;

    a little over a month.

#### kâi chun gûeh; kâi chut gûeh;

    more than a month.

#### gûeh-siaⁿ cē kàu àiⁿ sǹg-sìo;

    when the month is up we will settle the accounts.

#### chiu-káu jī-câp mêⁿ, gûeh cĭeⁿ gûeh lôh jī saⁿ keⁿ;

    on the ninth and the twentieth of the month, the moon rises and sets in the second and third watches.

#### gûeh píaⁿ, gûeh ko̤;

    cakes made to use in worship at the full of the eighth moon.

#### poih gûeh câp-ngŏ kìe-cò̤ tong-chiu coih;

    the middle of the eighth month is called the festival of the middle of autumn.

#### ciaⁿ gûeh câp-ngŏ mêⁿ kìe-cò̤ ngŵn-sio mêⁿ;

    the fifteenth night of first month is called the night of the first full moon.

#### lâi ŭ sì kâi gûeh;

    came four months ago.

#### bói lâi ŭ ngŏ kâi gûeh kú;

    bought it five months ago.

#### soiⁿ lâk kâi gûeh;

    six months before.

#### chit kâi gûeh côiⁿ;

    seven months beforehand.

#### múiⁿ gûeh;

    every month.

#### jît gûeh ô̤;

    a smooth bivalve, red on one side and yellow on the other.

#### gûeh mêⁿ; gûeh kng mêⁿ;

    moonlight nights.

#### kang-hu sĭ lŭn gûeh a sĭ lŭn jît?

    Is the work done by the day or by the month?