ลวก

Thai

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *luəkᴰ (“to scald”).[1]

Cognate with Lao ລວກ (lūak), Lü ᦷᦟᧅ (lok), Saek หล้วก, Zhuang lag (“to burn”).

Compare Middle Chinese 烙 (MC lak).

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicลวก
l w k
RomanizationPaiboonlûuak
Royal Instituteluak
(standard) IPA(key)/lua̯k̚˥˩/(R)

Verb

ลวก • (lûuak) (abstract noun การลวก)

  1. (of heat or hot substance, as fire, hot liquid, etc) to burn the outer part (of); to affect superficially.
  2. to parboil.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai‎[1], Cornell University PhD dissertation, page 355
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.