User:Oh! Tea

I speak Puning (Liusha/Nanjing mixed) Teochew. I'm not particularly good at this but the language is dying so it's like might as well.

My vocabulary that can't be verified

Pronunciations

還 hang²

I think I might say huan² or huang² in careful speech but I use hang² the most.

遐

hian³

• pronounced as hian³ when it means that (to a given extent or degree), as in

塊物遐孬啊？ [Teochew, trad.]
块物遐孬啊？ [Teochew, simp.]

go³ mêh⁸ hian³ mo² a⁷? [Peng'im]

Is [it] that bad? (這/個 this/that before 塊 is commonly omitted)

hian³

• and hia² when it means then (in that case), as in

  遐哩是過好笑啊。 [Teochew, trad.]
  遐哩是过好笑啊。 [Teochew, simp.]

  hia² li⁷ si⁶ guê³ ho² cio³ a⁷. [Peng'im]

  (Sarcastic) That's so funny. (Literally: Then it's too funny.)

• 趣味: pronounced as cu³ bhi⁷ as a noun, "cu⁵ bhi⁵" as an adjective

• 滴: sometimes pronounced as nih⁴ in 滴囝 where it's interchangeable with dih⁴, but only nih⁴ in 孥囝滴儂. (if i had to guess it's influenced by the nasal vowel in 囝, and in the case of 孥囝滴儂, completely merged and 囝 was dropped)

Definitions

吐膏

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): tou³ go¹

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• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tou³ go¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thòu ko
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ko³³/

Verb

Oh! Tea

1. (Teochew) (of batteries) to leak

有牌子 brand-name

User:Oh! Tea/有牌子

夾 ngiab⁸

1. (Teochew) clip; clamp (I don't know how to phrase this but it's exclusively things that can pinch your skin and probably hurt you if that makes sense)

   夾囝／夹囝 [Teochew]  ―  ngiab⁸gian² [Peng'im]  ―  small clip
   a 夾 ngiab8 is different than a 夾 giab8. a 毛夾 is pronounced like "mo5 giab8" and it just means something like a hair claw because it can't pinch your skin, if you say "mo5 ngiab8" I would imagine like a tweezer.

2. (Teochew) to pinch; to clamp
   For objects, if you are clamping something permanently (kinda) like a microphone stand, then it's "ngiab8", if you're using "ngiab8" on things like paper or food packaging, which is not permanent, then it's "giab8", but in the same time "ngiab8" wouldn't really be wrong but it may implies that you're storing it more permanently. (I might be making things up)
   For people, if a door shut on your fingers, they got "giab8" by the door, but if it shuts on one side of your arm, or somehow your fingers if you taped your skin to the door frame I guess, like how two fingers would pinch, (no bones damaged) then it got "ngiab8" by the door, also I would use "giab8" personally for hair because I suppose you can't really pinch it the way it grows. (I'm just making things up again)

垃圾 nah⁴ sab⁴

• ugly. Also my ranking of words for ugliness cuz why not: 孬睇<<垃圾<鏖糟<<野樣< 噦suêh⁴

  你生到過垃圾！ [Teochew, trad.]
  你生到过垃圾！ [Teochew, simp.]

  lu² sên¹ gao³ guê³ nah⁴ sab⁴! [Peng'im]

  You're fugly! (Literally: Your look is so garbage!)

  只尾魚生到過垃圾。 [Teochew, trad.]
  只尾鱼生到过垃圾。 [Teochew, simp.]

  zi² bhuê² hu⁵ sên¹ gao³ guê³ nah⁴ sab⁴. [Peng'im]

  This fish is so ugly. (Literally: This tail of fish [is] born to [be] so garbage)

• 淤漬 u³ zu³: unhygienic

  你做呢遐淤漬哪？塗跤下遐垃圾還敢夗落去。 [Teochew, trad.]
  你做呢遐淤渍哪？涂跤下遐垃圾还敢夗落去。 [Teochew, simp.]

  Lu² zo³ ni⁵ hian³ u³ zu³ na⁷? tou⁵ ka¹ ê⁶ hian³ nah⁴ sab⁴ hang¹ gan² in⁶ loh⁸ ke³ [Peng'im]

  Why are you so nasty? The floor is so dirty and you're just lying down on it.
  (Literally: Why are you that nasty? The floor [is] that nasty and [you] dare to lie down.)

No Hanzi

• /hoi: oi; scrape; yeah.

• laoh⁴: to lick. Personally I've never used 舐 but if I were to use it, it would only mean devouring something while licking it like a 5-year-old licking a lollipop

• bhai²: slow, as in stupid, probably 䆀, it doesn't mean ugly or bad to me though.

• hou⁵ mag⁸ 豆: pea. I've never said 荷蘭豆 in my life but I don't even know if it's actually a puning thing or it's just my mom considering her track record of raising me saying ueng⁵ iang² 營養 instead of ian⁵ iang² when my grandma and her sister both say the correct way but I digress.

• tom³: to slam (a door)

  tom3門／tom3门 [Teochew]  ―  tom³ meng⁵ [Peng'im]  ―  slam the door

  對個門tom3落去／对个门tom3落去 [Teochew]  ―  dui³ gai⁵ meng⁵ tom³ loh⁸ ku³ [Peng'im]  ―  slam the door shut

  個門乞風tom3落去 [Teochew, trad.]
  个门乞风tom3落去 [Teochew, simp.]

  gai⁵ meng⁵ kih⁴ huang¹ tom³ loh⁸ ku³ [Peng'im]

  the door was slamed shut by the wind

• uêh⁴ suêh⁴: 噦-something idk

• --do⁷-go⁷: sentence-final particle, used with 還 (still, yet), maybe 在塊

  伊還未到在塊。 [Teochew, trad.]
  伊还未到在块。 [Teochew, simp.]

  i¹ hang² bhuê⁶ gao³ do⁷ go⁷. [Peng'im]

  He's not here yet.(literally, “He still hasn't arived yet.”)

  我還唔知你有愛留在塊有無在塊。 [Teochew, trad.]
  我还唔知你有爱留在块有无在块。 [Teochew, simp.]

  ua² hang² m⁶ zai¹ lu² u⁶ ain³ lao⁵ do⁶ go⁷ u⁶ bho⁵ do⁷ go⁷. (very colloquial like just filled with filler words or something idk) [Peng'im]

  I don't even know if you're staying yet.(literally, “I still don't know if you want to stay here or not yet.”)

• huain²: spin, twist
• huain¹: spin, move around. = Hokkien 踅
• huain¹ huain¹ soh⁴ (huain¹ huain¹ 踅) = 鑽來鑽去 neng³ lai⁵ neng³ ku³. When you're sleeping in the same bed with someone:

  你好孬莫惦huain¹ huain¹ 踅？ [Teochew, trad. and simp.]

  lu² ho² mo² mai³ diam¹ huain¹ huain¹ soh⁴?) [Peng'im]

  Can you stop moving around?

• ngain²: 頑固

• ti¹: sticky, used for fluids or fluid-like things like soup or liquid glue

• giab⁴: sticky, used for surfaces like tape

  ti¹ ti¹ giab⁴ giab⁴: sticky sticky sticky sticky

• giaoh⁴ 尾: last = 最後

• na⁷ neng¹ sio¹: cooled/luke-warm

Contractions

• 只塊 zio²
• 許塊 hio²
• 只下 ziê²/zê²

  只下物 ziê²/zê² mêh⁸: current(ly), this moment, right now = 只當時 (𫢗時? more formal)

• 許下 hiê²

  許下物 hiê² mêh⁸: then, that moment = 許當時 (more formal)