the characters 夗 and 早

Gang Hiog 江煜 discusses the characters 夗 and 早 and all the Teochew specific words or expressions are marked with 潮

mên2 ug8 mo2 bhua5mên5

猛夗孬磨暝

Sleep quickly do not stay up all night.

 

mên2  潮	猛	quickly  快
ug8  潮	夗	sleep  睡覺
mo2  潮	孬	don’t 不要
bhua5mên5  潮	磨暝	to stay up late or all night 熬夜

How 夗 is said according to Mogher and czyzd in different places.

潮州	ug8	in6
汕頭	ngh8	inh8	LLL: enh8 = ngh8
揭陽	in6
澄海	ngh8
潮陽	inh8
饒平	ngh8
We have a custom in which we do not sleep on CNY’s eve night and to stay up in vigil all night is called siu2 mên5 守暝

 

ug8 ke3  潮	夗去	sleeping already
sui6dioh4 liao3	睡著了｜睡着了	sleeping already
ug8loh8 ke3  潮	夗落去	to lay down
tang2hia6 ke3	躺下去	to lay down

 

Ho2 zao2ki3 ua1 rig8tao5 pag8dioh4 sai2dou2
好早起哇日頭曝著屎肚｜好早起哇日头曝著屎肚
Can get up of bed wow! The sun is shinning on your belly.
As the two languages, Teochew and Mandarin, are so different, I have written the corresponding Mandarin characters by the English translations below.
ho2  潮	好	can 可以
zao2ki3  潮	早起	to wake up 起床
rig8tao5  潮	日頭｜日头	the sun 太陽
pag8  潮	曝	to shine on  曬
dioh4  潮	著｜著	a verb which complements denoting completion or result of an action 到
sai2dou2  潮	屎肚	abdomen, belly, stomach 腹部

za2 早

za2sing5	早晨	early morning
We, Teochew people, normally say za2sing5 as 眠早 mung5za2
za2mong2	早晚	sooner or later
In Swatow, za2mong2 is said as za2mung2 and the Teochew specific word for za2mong2 or za2mung2 is  先慢  soin1mang7

zao2 早

zao2ki3  潮	早起	to wake up 起床
ki2ceng5	起床	to wake up