တုဲ

Mon

Pronunciation
  • (Myanmar) IPA(key): /toə/, /tuə/, /tʊə/, /tɔə/[1]
  • (Thailand) IPA(key): /tɔə/[1]
  • Homophone: တဲ (tay)

Verb

တုဲ (tuy)[1]

  1. to be finished over to be ready to succeed to be accomplished.[1]
    တြုံဗှ်ေဒလိုက်ကတဵုနူပၟတ်တုဲ က လေၚ်စဴကၠုၚ်လ္ပာ်သ္ၚိဗှ်ေရ။ ― /kraoh pe̤h həlɒ̤c kətɒ nṳ kəmot toə kəliəŋ cao klɤŋ kəpac hɒəʔ pe̤h raʔ/ ― Your husband got up from the fire and came back to your home.[2]

Usage notes

Haswell (1874) includes this term as “affix. past tense,”[3] while Dryer (2013) regards Mon as one of the languages that have no tense-aspect inflection, citing Bauer (1982: passim).[4][5]

References
  1. Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32
  2. Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages‎, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600
  3. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 69
  4. Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon‎, SOAS, University of London, archived from the original on 21 November 2022
  5. Dryer, Matthew S. (2013) “Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes”, in Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin, editors, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Available online at https://wals.info/chapter/69, Accessed on 2020-10-11.)
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