ဗှ်ေ

Mon

Alternative forms
  • ဗေဟ်[1]

Etymology

Cognate with Nyah Kur เพ็ฮ่.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pe̤h/[3]
  • (file)

Pronoun

ဗှ်ေ (beh)[2]

  1. you, thou (second-person singular)
    (file)
    အဲဆာန်ဗှေ် ― ʔoat͡ɕʰanpʰe̤ ― I love you!
    (file)
    (Uncivilized vocabulary)တြုံဗှ်ေ ― truĥ beh ― you! husband[3]
  2. you (second-person plural, toward inferior or children)[1]

See also

(thou):

  • မၞး (mnaḥ)

(second-person plural):

  • (toward equals) မၞးတံ (mnaḥ taʼ); (colloquial, used by the aged to the young) ၝာဲ (mbāy)

References
  1. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, pages 11, 98
  2. Peiros, Ilia (1998) Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-142)‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 270
  3. 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
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