ချွတ်

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰʊʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkywat • ALA-LC: khyvatʻ • BGN/PCGN: chut • Okell: hcuʔ

From Old Burmese ခ္လွတ် (khlwat), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-lwat (“to free; release; slip; dislocate”) (Schuessler, 2007). Synchronically analyzed as the causative of ကျွတ် (kywat). Cognate with Tibetan གློད་པ (glod pa, “loosen, relax, slacken”), Tibetan ཧློད་པ (hlod pa, “loose, relaxed”), Lepcha ᰒᰤᰦᰳ (flját), ᰒᰤᰩᰳ (fljót), လွှတ် (hlwat), Chinese 脫 (OC *l̥ʰoːd, *l'oːd).

ချွတ် • (hkywat)

1. to take off, remove (shoes, clothes, hat, etc.)
2. to clean, to scrape
3. to deliver (someone) from ignorance, convert

• → Shan: ၶျွတ်ႈ (khjāut)

Borrowed from Thai [script needed] (chjot).

ချွတ် • (hkywat)

1. (music) a particular kind of music played in Myanmar dramas to denote stealthy movements of one of the characters

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981. Semantic extension of the "take off" sense in Etymology 1?”)

ချွတ် • (hkywat)

1. to err, go wrong

• “ချွတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• 1999 March 15, 義郎 西, ヨシオ ニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告‎^[1], volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692: