កើត

From Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Temne ked (“pregnant; to cause, to bring about”), Khmu [Cuang] kəːt, Halang kòt (“be born, be pregnant”).

The sense "east" was probably originally "the place where the sun rises" or "where the sun was born"; compare Thai ตะวันออก (dtà-wan-ɔ̀ɔk, “east”), Temne kedʔis (“east, "birth of the day"”), Khasi mih'ngi (“east, [where] the sun rises”).

The same analogy of "to be birth" can be made for the sense "day of the month during the period of waxing moon".

កើត • (kaət) (abstract noun ការកើត)

1. to be born, be created, be, become, come into existence, arise, appear
2. to rise (said of the sun)
3. to happen, occur
4. to give birth to
5. to have, suffer from (a disease), contract (an illness)
6. to be affected (by an emotion)
7. (coverb) to succeed, be possible, be able

កើត • (kaət)

1. east
2. day of the month during the period of waxing moon

   Antonym: រោច (rooc)

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• ទិសខាងកើត (tɨh khaang kaət)

កើត • (kaət) (abstract noun ភាពកើត)

1. eastern

• កំណើត (kɑmnaət)
• ខ្នើត (khnaət)
• បង្កើត (bɑngkaət)