I saw Professor Lim Lung Lung wrote this sentence “伊排眠起夗到晏晏正早起” and I had to look up the dictionary to find out the meaning of bai5.
bai5 |
排 |
to indicate every item . . . |
i1 bai5 rig8 lai5 |
伊排日來。 |
He comes every day. |
Therefore,
the meaning of the above-mentioned sentence is “He wakes up late every morning.”
i1 bai5 mung5ki2 ngh8 gao3 uan1 uan1
zian3 zao2ki2 |
伊排眠起夗到晏晏正早起。 |
He wakes up late every morning. |
If you were
to look up Teochew dictionaries, you will not find a character for zao2 as in
zao2ki2 [wakes up] and Mogher writes it as 走起。
I have heard a couple of Professor
Lim’s lectures and he uses zao2 早
as in early.
Sleep is said differently depending on your roots. Many people in Swatow say sleep as 夗 ngh8 and people in Teochew City say sleep as 夗 ug8. Mogher gives examples of what different parts of our homeland say sleep.
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