ခွေး
Burmese
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
Derived terms
See also
- (canids) ခွေးမျိုးရင်း (hkwe:myui:rang:); ဝံပုလွေငယ် (wampu.lwe-ngai, “coyote”), ခွေး (hkwe:, “dog”), မြေခွေး (mrehkwe:, “fox”), ခွေးအ (hkwe:a., “jackal”), ဝံပုလွေ (wampu.lwe, “wolf”) (Category: my:Canids)
- (Chinese zodiac signs) တရုတ်ဆယ့်နှစ်ရာသီခွင် (ta.ruthcai.hnacrasihkwang); ကြွက် (krwak, “Mouse”), နွား (nwa:, “Cow”), ကျား (kya:, “Tiger”), ယုန် (yun, “Rabbit”), နဂါး (na.ga:, “Dragon”), မြွေ (mrwe, “Snake”), မြင်း (mrang:, “Horse”), ဆိတ် (hcit, “Sheep”), မျောက် (myauk, “Monkey”), ကြက် (krak, “Rooster”), ခွေး (hkwe:, “Dog”), ဝက် (wak, “Pig”) (Category: my:Chinese zodiac signs)
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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