# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ngwn
### ngwn

* 頑ngẃn10381814
* Thick-headed; mulish.

#### hṳ́ kò̤ kâi nâng ngẃn căi;

    the people there are very stupid.

#### sît-căi si ngŵn mîu;

    are really a set of dunderheads.
* 玩ngẃn1039964
* Trinkets, or gems for playing with; to toy or play with; to test, to try; valuable, rare; fine.

#### kó-ngẃn;

    bric-a-brac.

#### ngẃn khì;

    valuable articles such as rare vases, pots or fine porcelain.

#### ngŵn huap;

    to despise the laws.

#### ngẃn i kâi bī;

    try its flavour.

#### îu-ngẃn;

    to ramble for recreation.
* 元ngŵn1134102
* The commencement; the first cause; the head; the principal; the eldest; original; primary; among Tauists a vast period of time like a geological epoch.

#### ngŵn-nî;

    the first year of a reign.

#### cí kâi hûang-tì kói-ngŵn cò sĭm-mûeh?

    What is the style of the reign of this monarch?

#### ngŵn-khì put cok;

    his constitution is not strong.

#### sam ngŵn kîp tĭ;

    the three senior graduates.

#### ngŵn-sio-coih;

    the fifteenth of the first month.

#### ngŵn chîo;

    the Original or Mongol dynasty: it swayed China and Central Asia from A. D. 1278 to 1369.

#### ngŵn-tàng;

    New Year's day.
* 源ngŵn11338510
* A fountain, source, or origin.

#### cúi ngŵn;

    a fountain.

#### ngŵn thâu;

    the source.

#### i kâi kṳn-ngŵn sĭ chông tī-kò̤ lâi kâi?

    Whence does it originate?

#### cîah cúi cū sṳ tîeh cúi-ngŵn;

    in drinking remember the fountain.

#### khoi cúi kâi ngŵn-thâu sĭ tŏ tī kò̤?

    Where is the source of this river?

#### hô̤ ngŵn;

    the source of a stream.

#### châi ngŵn kún-kún;

    an ever welling fountain.

#### cúi-kâi ngŵn-cûaⁿ kún-kún lâu bŏi lío;

    the spring wells inexhaustibly from its source.

#### tī tîeh i kâi pēⁿ cìaⁿ ŏi tn̆g kṳn;

    if the source of the disease is reached, it may be radically cured.
* 原ngŵn1133278
* Origin; source; beginning; natural; proper; inate; originally, primarily; really; honestly; the original condition; to trace a matter to its source.

#### chîm-mn̄g i kâi ngŵn-îu;

    inquire into the causes.

#### chêng ŭ khó̤ ngŵn;

    there are extenuating circumstances.

#### ngŵn-lâi jû chṳ́;

    it was originally like this.

#### tong-ngŵn;

    China.

#### úa ngŵn bô̤ sĭeⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    I did not originally think of so doing.

#### mûeh kui ngŵn cú;

    the goods revert to their original owner.

#### ngŵn chêng tīaⁿ cŭe;

    search out the facts, and condemn the wrong-doer accordingly.

#### i-ngŵn sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ khì;

    it was originally built in that style.

#### ngŵn īeⁿ;

    the original style.

#### ngŵn khòi;

    the original deed.

#### kha, thàu lío ŏi hôk ngŵn a bŏi?

    Will the feet on being unbound resume their original shape?

#### ngŵn pńg si jîeh cōi?

    What capital had he to start with?

#### ngŵn ngṳ̂n siu hûe;

    got back the sum originally paid out.

#### ngŵn-cá sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    that is the way it was at first.

#### ngŵn-kū sĭ cía ĭeⁿ;

    in the beginning it was like this.

#### ngŵn lō tńg lâi;

    returned by the same route.

#### chūe chut i kâi kṳn-ngŵn;

    search out its origin.

#### i i-kū tŏ̤ ngŵn ūi tīu;

    he lives in the place where he used to live.

#### ngŵn nâng;

    the same person who did it before.
* 顏ngŵn10831819
* The countenance; color.

#### chēng kú-kú ngŵn-sek bŏi pìⁿ;

    the color will not change, no matter how long it is worn.

#### bô̤ ngŵn hó̤ sie kìⁿ;

    have not the face to call on him.

#### hô̤h hwt, thông ngŵn;

    hoary hair, and a youthful face.
* 願ngw̆n113718110
* To desire; to hope; a preference; the object of desire.

#### sĭ i ka-kī chêng ngw̆n kâi, a sĭ lṳ́ míen-kíang i kâi?

    Did he do it voluntarily or did you constrain him?

#### sĭ i kam-ngw̆n cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

    he is willing to have it thus.

#### thiaⁿ tîeh ngw̆n sì;

    when he heard it, he thought he would rather die.

#### ka-kī cṳ̆ ngw̆n cò̤;

    did it of his own free will.

#### jû ā sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa kâi ngw̆n cū cok;

    if that is the way it is to be, my desires are satisfied.

#### sĭ úa ngw̆n kâi;

    it is what I desired.

#### i cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ chêng, m̄ ngw̆n;

    he does it very unwillingly.

#### bô̤ cêk nâng ngw̆n;

    no one was willing.

#### sĭ i kâi sim só̤ ngw̆n;

    it is what his heart desires.

#### ngŵn kio i tam-sêng;

    is willing to guarantee it.
* 愿ngw̄n11376110
* A vow.

#### hwt ngw̄n; hĕ ngw̄n;

    make a vow.

#### hòiⁿ ngw̄n;

    pay a vow.

#### būe cêng kói ngw̄n;

    not yet free from his vow.