သီ
Burmese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θì/
- Romanization: MLCTS: si • ALA-LC: sī • BGN/PCGN: thi • Okell: thi
Verb
သီ • (si)
- to string, skewer
- to compose
- to sing, chant
- to tack, make a running stitch
- to weaken, dim
- to come near, approach
- to recede into the distance, be distant
Derived terms
- ကျေးလက်သီချင်း (kye:laksihkyang:)
- ကြိုးသီချင်း (krui:sihkyang:)
- ကုံးသီ (kum:si)
- ဇာတ်ဝင်သီချင်း (jat-wangsihkyang:)
- တစ်သီကြီး (tacsi-kri:)
- နှတ်သီတံ (hnatsitam)
- ပဒေသာသီချင်း (pa.desasihkyang:)
- ပွတ်ကာသီကာ (pwatkasika)
- ပဲသီတာ (pai:sita)
- ဖတ်သီဖတ်သီ (hpatsihpatsi)
- ဖိုသီဖတ်သီ (hpuisihpatsi)
- ဖောဖောသီသီ (hpau:hpau:sisi)
- ယဉ့်သီ (yany.si)
- ရစ်သီရစ်သီ (racsiracsi)
- ရိပ်ကာသီကာ (ripkasika)
- ရေသီကြိုး (resi-krui:)
- ရေသီနား (resina:)
- ရေသီလံ (resilam)
- သွေးသီ (swe:si)
- သီကာရီကာ (sikarika)
- သီကုံး (sikum:)
- သီချင်း (sihkyang:)
- သီချုပ် (sihkyup)
- သီတံ (sitam)
- သီရီ (siri)
- သီဝေ (siwe)
- သီသီကလေး (sisika.le:)
References
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (103. to Sing, Chant; Song)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 16
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (104. to Thread, String (beads)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 16
Further reading
- “သီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛm/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Burmese သိမ်း (sim:).
Verb
သီ (sɛm)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Pali sīmā (“boundary”). Cognate with Burmese သိမ် (sim), Shan သိမ်ႇ (sìm) and Lao ສິມ (sim).
Noun
သီ (sɛm)
References
- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pa'o Karen
Etymology
From Proto-Karen *sejᴬ (“dead, to die”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *si⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij (“to die”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen သံ (thee), Western Pwo ၥံၫ, Western Kayah ꤞꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (thyē).
Pronunciation
- (Northern & Southern Pa'o) IPA(key): /si̤³¹/
Adjective
သီ (transliteration needed)
- dead.
Verb
သီ (transliteration needed)
- to die.
S'gaw Karen
Etymology
From Proto-Karen *saNᴬ (“new”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သင့် (θâɴ).
Adjective
သီ • (thaw)
Antonyms
- လီၢ်လံၤ (law̱ leē)
Classifier
သီ • (thaw)
- Classifier for days.
References
- Luangthongkum, Theraphan (2019) “A view on proto-Karen phonology and lexicon”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society[2], volume 12, number 1
Shan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʰiː˨˦/
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
Cognate with Thai สี (sǐi), Lao ສີ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲ (ṡii), Tai Dam ꪎꪲ, Phake ꩬီ (sī), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Zhuang cae, Zuojiang Zhuang cae.
Verb
သီ • (sǐi) (abstract noun လွင်ႈသီ)
Etymology 2
Cognate with Thai สี (sǐi), Lao ສີ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲ (ṡii).
Noun
သီ • (sǐi)