ဝဲ

See also: ဝယ်

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɛ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: wai: • ALA-LC: vai • BGN/PCGN: wè: • Okell: wè

Etymology 1

Clipping of လက်ဝဲ (lak-wai:, “left side”).

Noun

ဝဲ • (wai:)

  1. left side
Derived terms
  • လက်ဝဲ (lak-wai:)
  • လက်ဝဲရံ (lak-wai:ram)
  • လက်ဝဲရစ် (lak-wai:rac)
  • လက်ဝဲလမ်းပညာ (lak-wai:lam:pa.nya)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-waːy (“to whirl, brandish, wave”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (hui, “to whorl, coil; twist in whorls / coils”); outside of Tibeto-Burman, has been compared with Old Chinese 逶 (OC *qrol, “winding, curving; swagger”), 委 (OC *qrol, *qrolʔ, “to bend, hang down”) (though their Old Chinese reconstructions do not support this connection), as well as 洄 (OC *ɡuːl, “eddy, whirlpool”) by Luce,[1] which is a much closer semantic match, though it still suffers from dissimilar Old reconstruction.

The "hover" sense is treated as equivalent to the "whirlpool" sense by MED, though STEDT separates it and derives the former from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to encircle, circular, fence”) (whence Mizo [Term?] (huaŋ, “yard, enclosure”)).

Noun

ဝဲ • (wai:)

  1. whirlpool, eddy

Verb

ဝဲ • (wai:)

  1. to hover or fly in circles
  2. to have an accent
    စကားဝဲတယ် ― ca.ka:wai:tai ― to have an accent

Derived terms

  • စုပ်ဝဲ (cup-wai:)
  • ပျံဝဲ (pyam-wai:)
  • မျက်ရည်ဝဲ (myak-ranywai:)
  • မှီဝဲ (hmiwai:)
  • မှုတ်ဝဲ (hmut-wai:)
  • ရစ်ဝဲ (rac-wai:)
  • ရစ်ဝဲရစ်ဝဲ (rac-wai:rac-wai:)
  • ဝဲကတော့ (wai:ka.tau.)
  • ဝဲစလုတ် (wai:ca.lut)
  • ဝဲစုပ် (wai:cup)
  • ဝဲပျံ (wai:pyam)
  • ဝဲပြန် (wai:pran)
  • ဝဲမကူး (wai:ma.ku:)
  • ဝဲမှုတ် (wai:hmut)
  • ဝဲလင်း (wai:lang:)
  • ဝဲဩဃ (wai:au:gha.)
  • အူဝဲ (uwai:)

Etymology 3

Noun

ဝဲ • (wai:)

  1. scabies; mange
Derived terms
  • ရေဝဲနာ (rewai:na)
  • ဝဲစား (wai:ca:)
  • ဝဲနာ (wai:na)
  • သဲဝဲ (sai:wai:)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WAY Finals (4. Eddy; Whirlpool)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 22
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WAY Finals (3. to Itch)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 22

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