ကိုယ့်ဥမှဥထင်

Burmese

Etymology

ကိုယ့် (kuiy., “one's”) +‎ ဥ (u., “egg”) +‎ မှ (hma., “from; emphatic infix particle”) +‎ ဥ (u., “egg”) +‎ ထင် (htang, “to think”), thus "to think of one's egg as one's (own) egg".

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ကိုယ့်ဥမှဥထင်
  • IPA(key): /ko̰jʔṵm̥a̰ʔṵtʰɪ̀ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kuiy.u.hma.u.htang • ALA-LC: kuiyʻʹumhauthaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: koy.u.hma.u.htin • Okell: koúyúhmáúhtiñ

Proverb

ကိုယ့်ဥမှဥထင် • (kuiy.u.hma.u.htang)

  1. to recognize only one's offspring as one's own
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