ယောက်

See also: ယောက်ျား

Burmese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

ယောက် • (yauk)

  1. (obsolete) to throw a garment around the neck or shoulder
  2. to wind thread round a bobbin or spool
Derived terms
  • ယောက်ဘီး (yaukbhi:, “spinning wheel”)
  • ယောက်ရိုးတံ (yauk-rui:tam, “handle of hand-reel holding bobbins used for laying the warp”)
  • ယောက်လည်တံ (yauklanytam, “shaft on the hand-reel holding a bobbin”)
  • ယောက်လုံး (yauklum:, “spool, roller, bobbin”)
  • ရက်ဖောက်ယောက် (rakhpauk-yauk, “to wind thread onto the bobbin; to quill”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-qjawk (“poker, pudding-stick, ladle”) (STEDT under *s-k-ywak). Cognate with Tibetan སྐྱོགས (skyogs, “ladle, dipper”); the traditional comparison with Old Chinese 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ, “ladle, spoon”) appears phonetically dubious, based on newer reconstructions of the pronunciation, though this is disputed and others still maintain the comparison as valid.

Noun

ယောက် • (yauk)

  1. ladle
Derived terms
  • ပန်းကန်ခွက်ယောက် (pan:kanhkwak-yauk, “tableware”)
  • ယောက်ကော် (yaukkau, “ladle”)
  • ယောက်ချို (yaukhkyui, “ladle”)
  • ယောက်မ (yaukma., “flat wooden ladle”)
  • ယောက်သွား (yaukswa:, “mussel”)
  • အိုးအင်ခွက်ယောက် (ui:anghkwak-yauk, “household utensils”)

Etymology 3

Classifier

ယောက် • (yauk)

  1. numeral classifier for people
Derived terms
  • တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် (taccumtacyauk, “someone, somebody”)
  • တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပြန် (tacyauktacpran, “alternately, by turns”)
  • တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပေါက် (tacyauktacpauk, “discordantly, disharmoniously”)
  • တစ်ယောက်တစ်လက် (tacyauktaclak, “with each contributing their share”)
  • တစ်ယောက်တစ်လှည့် (tacyauktachlany., “in turn, in rotation”)
  • တစ်ယောက်တစ်လဲ (tacyauktaclai:, “in turn, in rotation”)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OK Finals (47. Num. of Persons)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 82

Further reading

  • “ယောက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • “ယောက်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
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