ထွေး

See also: ထွေ, တွေ, တွေ့, and တွေး

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: htwe: • ALA-LC: thveʺ • BGN/PCGN: htwe: • Okell: htweì

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Burmese ထုယ် (htuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water, liquid”), a root with significant variation across branches. Compare also Thai ถุย (tǔi), suggesting onomatopoeic origin or influence. Alternatively, compare Old Chinese 唾 (OC *tʰoːls, “spittle”) (Hill, 2019).

Verb

ထွေး • (htwe:)

  1. to spit (to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth), spit out (water or food)
Derived terms
  • ထွေးခံ (htwe:hkam)
  • ထွေးအင် (htwe:ang)
  • ဒထွေး (da.htwe:)
  • မထွေးနိုင်မမျိုနိုင် (ma.htwe:nuingma.myuinuing)
  • မထွေးနိုင်မအန်နိုင် (ma.htwe:nuingma.annuing)
  • သည်ထွေး (sanyhtwe:)

Etymology 2

Verb

ထွေး • (htwe:)

  1. to wrap or swaddle (with shawl, blanket, etc.)
  2. to be tangled, be mixed, be confused

Noun

ထွေး • (htwe:)

  1. (same as အထွေး (a.htwe:)) mingled mass (of things), tangled skein

Derived terms

  • ဆံခြည်ထွေး (hcamhkranyhtwe:)
  • ဆီထွေး (hcihtwe:)
  • ထွေးယှက် (htwe:hyak)
  • ထွေးရောယှက်တင် (htwe:rau:hyaktang)
  • ထွေးလားလုံးလား (htwe:la:lum:la:)
  • ထွေးလုံးရစ်ပတ် (htwe:lum:racpat)
  • နွေးနွေးထွေးထွေး (nwe:nwe:htwe:htwe:)
  • ပိုးထွေး (pui:htwe:)
  • ယုယပိုက်ထွေး (yu.ya.puikhtwe:)
  • ရှုပ်ထွေး (hruphtwe:)
  • ရှုပ်ထွေးပွေလီ (hruphtwe:pweli)
  • ရောထွေး (rau:htwe:)
  • လုံးထွေး (lum:htwe:)
  • လုံးလားထွေးလား (lum:la:htwe:la:)
  • အထွေး (a.htwe:)
  • အထွေးထွေး (a.htwe:htwe:)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(t/d)oy (“younger sibling”). Compare Jingpho śə doi (“last-born child in a family”); STEDT's comparison with Old Chinese 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “younger brother”) appears less phonetically sound.

Noun

ထွေး • (htwe:)

  1. (same as အထွေး (a.htwe:)) youngest sibling
Derived terms
  • ထွေးတော် (htwe:tau)
  • ထွေးလေး (htwe:le:)
  • နီတာထွေး (nitahtwe:)
  • ဘထွေး (bha.htwe:)
  • မိထွေး (mi.htwe:)
  • အထွေး (a.htwe:)
Descendants
  • → Shan: ထူၺ်း (thói)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WE Finals (151. Ball [of Thread], Skein)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 17

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