တို့

See also: -တို့

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /to̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: tui. • ALA-LC: tuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: to. • Okell: toú

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Burmese အတိဝ် (atiw).[1] Luce gives Old Chinese 余 (OC *la, “I”),[2] 曹 (OC *zluː, “group; people of the same kind”)[3] as cognates. Alternatively analyzed as an apocopic form of ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.) and ငါတို့ (ngatui.).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဒို့
  • IPA(key): /do̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: tui. • ALA-LC: tuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: do. • Okell: toú

Pronoun

တို့ • (tui.)

  1. we, us
  2. I, my
Synonyms

Particle

တို့ • (tui.)

  1. suffixed to nouns to denote a group of persons or things
  2. particle suffixed to some verbs for emphasis or euphony

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

တို့ • (tui.)

  1. to touch (something) lightly, dab, prod, goad (draught animals)
  2. to jot down
  3. to dip in sauce, etc.
  4. to instigate surreptitiously, incite on the sly
Derived terms
  • ကြိမ်တို့ (krimtui.)
  • ကူးတို့ (ku:tui.)
  • ကူးတို့ခ (ku:tui.hka.)
  • ကူးတို့ဆိပ် (ku:tui.hcip)
  • ကူးတို့လျား (ku:tui.lya:)
  • ဆေးတို့ဖတ် (hce:tui.hpat)
  • တို့ကနန်းဆိတ်ကနန်း (tui.ka.nan:hcitka.nan:)
  • တို့ကာပင့်ကာ (tui.kapang.ka)
  • တို့စရာ (tui.ca.ra)
  • တို့တို့တိတိ (tui.tui.ti.ti.)
  • တို့ဖတ် (tui.hpat)
  • တို့မီးရှို့မီး (tui.mi:hrui.mi:)
  • နိဗ္ဗာန်ကူးတို့ (nibbanku:tui.)
  • ဖန်တို့တမ်း (hpantui.tam:)
  • မီးတို့ (mi:tui.)
  • လက်တို့ (laktui.)

Etymology 3

Noun

တို့ • (tui.)

  1. unit of dry measure equal to four တင်း (tang:)
    1. a large basket of such capacity

References

  1. ^ Rudolf A. Yanson (1 January 2002) A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions‎[1], Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 163–167
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (29. We; I (resp.))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28
  3. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (30. Plural Suffix (nouns, pronouns))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28

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