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6 chun 圳圳畎: zeon

7 chung 涌 chunq1

8 fan 填 frann

9 ha 下吓 xraa6 厦 xraar

10 hang 坑 xhaanq

11 hon 旱 xrorn

12 kan 簡 gaarn

13 kang

14 kau 潑 gaau1

Meaning or Remarks An irrigation channel.

A stream, especially one from which the boat-people get water or up which they take boats.

A grave-mound (i.e. not one of the usual graves cut from the hillside). Also read in names wan, wrann (110) and wang, wrang (111).

Very common in place names, in most of which it cannot possibly mean 'below'. Sometimes seems to stand for hang (10).

This is the usual word for a river in use by land dwellers. It includes the valley in which the river flows. See also lek (32). Land for dry cultivation is xrorndrei and hill-paddy xrornwroh but in names of villages and localities this word (like ghonn) is usually tabooed in some cases being replaced by the word tso (102) (early) which is written with one stroke less: 4.

A bamboo water-pipe for irrigation. This is a Yao179 word.

Mis-spelling of keng (19)

A channel. Sometimes confused with au (2).

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