ရဲ့

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not clear if mentioned by STEDT, and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

• Phonetic respellings: ရဲ့, ကဲ့
• IPA^(key): /jɛ̰/, /kɛ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rai. • ALA-LC: raiʹ • BGN/PCGN: yè./kè. • Okell: yé/ké

ရဲ့ • (rai.)

1. of, ’s (indicating possession)

   အဖေရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hperai. im ― Father’s house

   အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ် ― a.hpe.rai. im ― Father’s house

ရဲ့ • (rai.)

1. postpositional marker used at the end of an affirmative sentence or in the middle of an interrogative sentence to express certainty; mostly found in certain fixed phrases

Optionally triggers induced creaky tone of the preceding word. Possession may also be indicated by induced creaky tone alone, without this postposition, e.g. အဖေ့ အိမ် (a.hpe. im, “Father’s house”).

• ကဲ့ (kai.) (after a syllable ending in /ʔ/)

• ၏ (e) (formal)

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