အို

See also: အိုး

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔò/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ui • ALA-LC: ʼui • BGN/PCGN: o • Okell: ou

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Has been taken as inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ga (“old”), whence Old Chinese 故 (OC *kaːs, “old things; former; dead”) and Tibetan རྒ (rga, “to be old; aged”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?); however, the phonetics are dubious, and STEDT does not link the Burmese to the Sino-Tibetan root (ui "old (of persons)"). Luce gives Old Chinese 嫗 (OC *qos, “old woman; to warm-nurse”) as a cognate, though the Chinese is thought to be related to ဥ (u., “egg”) instead.[1]

Adjective

အို • (ui)

  1. old (of a living being: having lived for relatively many years), aged, infirm
  2. decrepit, dilapidated

Verb

အို • (ui)

  1. to show distress
  2. (archaic) to be prolonged
  3. to be married

Derived terms

  • စစ်အို (cacui)
  • ဇရာအို (ja.raui)
  • ဖျားအို (hpya:ui)
  • မျက်နှာအို (myakhnaui)
  • လူအို (luui)
  • သက်ကျားအို (sakkya:ui)
  • သူအို (suui)
  • အနာအို (a.naui)
  • အဘွားအို (a.bhwa:ui)
  • အဘိုးအို (a.bhui:ui)
  • အမယ်အို (a.maiui)
  • အိုကြီးအိုမ (ui-kri:uima.)
  • အိုစနာ (uica.na)
  • အိုစာ (uica)
  • အိုဇာတာ (uijata)
  • အိုနာကျိုးကန်း (uina-kyui:kan:)
  • အိုနာစာ (uinaca)
  • အိုနာစာရန်ပုံငွေ (uinacaranpumngwe)
  • အိုမင်း (uimang:)
  • အိုမင်းမစွမ်း (uimang:ma.cwam:)
  • အိုမင်းရင့်ရော် (uimang:rang.rau)

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Likely imitative.

Particle

အို • (ui)

  1. word used in addressing someone: oh!

Interjection

အို • (ui)

  1. word expressing surprise, pity, disapprobation, etc.: oh

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English o.

Noun

အို • (ui)

  1. the Latin letter O/o

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (1. to be Old; Old age)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 27

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