# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/toiⁿ
### toiⁿ

* 典tóiⁿ894126
* To mortgage.

#### tóiⁿ châng;

    to mortgage a field.

#### tóiⁿ chù;

    mortgage a house.

#### cẃn tóiⁿ;

    to sub-mortgage.
* 第tŏiⁿ8791185
* A consecutive rank or place; placed before numbers it forms the ordinal; to grade; to arrange in a series.

#### tŏiⁿ it, tŏiⁿ jī, tŏiⁿ saⁿ;

    first, second, third, or firstly, secondly, thirdly.

#### tŏiⁿ it mîaⁿ;

    the name at the head of the list.

#### i pâi tŏ̤ tŏiⁿ kúi kò̤?

    What is its order in the series?

#### lîet chṳ̀ tŏiⁿ-lîet hó̤ lío;

    the place which each is to occupy in the series is already assigned.

#### tŏiⁿ kúi hō̤?

    Of what grade is it?

#### lîet téng tŏiⁿ;

    ranged in the higest rank.

#### ŭ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng kio bô̤ mn̂g-tŏiⁿ chut sin kâi nâng m̄ tâng;

    those who had a standing in the literary ranks before entering into public life, are unlike those who had not such a standing.
* 閾tŏiⁿ11411698
* The threshold or sill of a door.

#### m̂ng tŏiⁿ m̄ hó̤ khĭa;

    do not stand on the door sill.

#### tōa ke mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

    a broad sill.

#### pak tīo mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

    to take away the door sill.

#### huah mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

    step over the door sill.

#### cîhe mn̂g tŏiⁿ;

    stone threshold.

#### i peh mn̂g tŏiⁿ peh m̄ kùe;

    he cannot get over the sill.
* 佃tŏiⁿ89695
* Tenants; field hands.

#### tŏiⁿ hŏ;

    tenants.

#### châng tŏiⁿ;

    lessees of land.

#### hng tŏiⁿ;

    the lessee of a ​garden.

#### chù tŏiⁿ;

    the tenant of a house.

#### phò tŏiⁿ;

    the one who rents and occupies a shop.

#### tŏiⁿ sĭ tī-tîang?

    Who is the tenant?

#### hóⁿ tŏiⁿ;

    a masterful tenant.

#### tío tŏiⁿ;

    eject a tenant.

#### hŭo tŏiⁿ;

    give information to tenants of a change of landlords.

#### kú tŏiⁿ sêng cieh;

    and old tenant becomes an old settler.
* 靛tōiⁿ8971748
* Indigo, or any of the blue dyes found in China.

#### cheⁿ-tōiⁿ sĭ cheⁿ cò̤ kâi;

    indigo is made from the indigo plant.

#### îeⁿ tōiⁿ;

    prussian blue.

#### lâm tōiⁿ;

    indigo blue.

#### tōiⁿ kng;

    a blue dye-pot.

#### tōiⁿ hue;

    the indigo as it floats on the liquor.

#### tōiⁿ tái;

    dregs in the bottom of the indigo vats.

#### cheⁿ cìm tŏ̤ hâk tói, àu kú, cū cò̤ tōiⁿ;

    the indigo plant, leaves and stalks, after being put into lime water and long soaked, becomes indigo.

#### tōiⁿ tháng;

    the vats in which indigo is made.
* 殿tōiⁿ896799
* A high and grand hall; a palace; the hall of audience; a main building in a temple.

#### cêk cō̤ keng-tōiⁿ; kim lŵn tōiⁿ;

    a royal palace.

#### thài-cṳ́ ûang-îa cheng-cò̤ tōiⁿ-ĕ;

    crown princes are address as "Your Highness."

#### tōa tōiⁿ; cìaⁿ tōiⁿ;

    the main building in a temple.

#### côiⁿ tōiⁿ, ău tōiⁿ, phien tōiⁿ;

    the building in the front, at the back, or on the side, in a temple.
* 堅tōiⁿ380328
* Dense; compact; sound; solid; firm; hard; concrete; lasting.

#### cí īeⁿ pò ío tōiⁿ;

    this sort of cloth wears better.

#### tōiⁿ châ;

    hard wood.

#### cía sam tōiⁿ, hía sam phàⁿ;

    this deal is of compact fiber, while that is light and porous.

#### tōiⁿ kùe thih;

    more durable than iron.

#### kàⁿ-bó̤ phû būe kàu, khah tōiⁿ;

    the yeast has not fermented in it sufficiently, and it is too heavy.

#### cí khí cîeh tōiⁿ căi;

    this sort of stone is very hard.

#### chîeⁿ ceng lâi tōiⁿ-tōiⁿ;

    the wall is pounded very hard.

#### i kâi chù khí lâi bŏi tōiⁿ;

    his house is not strongly built.