ခွေး

Burmese

ခွေး

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese ခုယ်း (khuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, dog).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe: • ALA-LC: khveʺ • BGN/PCGN: hkwe: • Okell: hkweì

Noun

ခွေး • (hkwe:)

  1. dog

Derived terms

  • ခွေးကလေး (hkwe:ka.le:, puppy)
  • ခွေးဘီလူး (hkwe:bhilu:, bulldog; mastiff)
  • ခွေးမ (hkwe:ma., bitch)
  • ခွေးသမင် (hkwe:sa.mang, greyhound)
  • ခွေးအိမ် (hkwe:im, kennel, doghouse)

See also

References

  • Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.
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