WORDS COMBINED.
1.—The eyebrows. The hair. The jaws. The chin. The nostrils. The neck. The gullet. 2.—The shoulders. The spine. The breast. The belly.
3.—The knee-cap. The ankle-bone. The joints. 4.—To scrape the face. To shave the head. To behead.
5.—Respectable. 6.—The eyebrows are the hair above the eyes. Ki koh means the hair on either side of the forehead. 7.—The jaws are the flesh on either side of the mouth. 8.—The bone below the mouth is the chin. 9.—The shoulders are at the top of the back.
10.—The space behind the shoulders is called the tiu koh and the tiu kou.
11.—What is behind the head is called the neck.
12.—The breast is below the throat and above the belly. 13.—The knee-cap is the joint in the middle of the leg. The joint above the foot is called the ankle. 14.—When people are too young to have beards their faces have to be scraped.
15.—In shaving, what is shaved off is the short hair growing outside the queue. Outlaws who do not shave the head are called long-haired rebels.
16.—When a rebel is captured he is beheaded, and the head cut off is called a koh fi.
17.—When you say a man is respectable, you mean that his conduct has nothing bad about it. When you say that that man lai tao lah, you mean that he is good-looking.
18.—You may also say that his house is respectable—that it is a fine house.
1.—Keh nang. Ka ‘hliang. Mang. Ka kang. Kang nüeh. Ka kung. Tiung kung. 2.—Chieh. Tiu. Kang. Ka chiang.
3.—Koh chiang. Sung ngêng. Yeh. 4.—Kieh mai. T’i koh. Sai koh.
5.—Lah. 6.—Keh nang tiao mai keh vai ka ‘hliang. Ki koh tiao yen tieh au p’i pieh ka ‘hliang. 7.—Mang tiao lo au p’i pieh ngi. 8.—Lo pi ta pieh sung tiao ka kang. 9.—Chieh tiao kou keh vai.
10.—Au chieh keh kai pieh ‘hli koh tiu koh tiu kou.
11.—Lai koh keh ta koh ka kung.
12.—Kang tiao ka kung keh ta ka chiang keh vai. 13.—Koh chiang tiao tou ka tiung pieh sung yeh. Lao keh vai pieh sung yeh chiu koh tiu ngêng. 14.—Nai i a mai hsieh nieh pieh shih ‘hou sung ou kieh mai.
15.—T’i koh; T’i pieh tiao chiao mi pieh pi kou pieh ka ‘hliang lai. A t’i koh tiao tsui moung koh ta ‘hliang tsui.
16.—Vi k’a tsui chiu sai. Sai lo pieh koh chiu koh fi.
17.—Ch’iu lai nai lah tiao ch’iu lai nai moung pieh ‘hi a mai kai shi a ghou. Ch’iu lai nai moung lai tao lah tiao ch’iu ngi lai tao ghou ngieh.
18.—Ngi pieh lai chieh poh tao lah tou ch’iu tao.