စ့

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Pwo စေဝ် (cì̱), Western Pwo စ့ၩ. Luce (1985) suggests a connection with Austroasiatic (whence Pa'o ရွဉ် (rə̀n)); compare, for example, Mon သြန် (sɔn). Luangthongkum (2019) does not consider the S'gaw and Pa'o forms connected.

Noun

စ့ • (say)

  1. silver
  2. money

References

  • Luangthongkum, Theraphan (2019) “A view on proto-Karen phonology and lexicon”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society‎[1], volume 12, number 1
  • Luce, Gordon. 1985. Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: languages and history (volume 2). Oxford University Press. →ISBN
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