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ปลี

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Thai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tai *pliːᴬ (“banana blossom”).[1]

Cognate with Northern Thai ᨸᩖᩦ, Lao ປີ (pī), Shan ပီ (pǐi), Phake ပီ (pī), Zhuang be (“classifier for a banana”) (dialectal) and vi (ditto) (dialectal).

Sagart (2020) compared this word with Proto-Austronesian *punti (“banana”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Orthographicปลี
p l ī
Phonemic
ปฺลี
p ̥ l ī
RomanizationPaiboonbplii
Royal Institutepli
(standard) IPA(key)/pliː˧/(R)

Noun

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ปลี • (bplii)

  1. banana blossom.
  2. flower cluster.
  3. (architecture) finial on top of a chedi

References

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  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai‎[1], Cornell University PhD dissertation, page 330
  2. ^ Sagart, Laurent (2020) "Southern Austronesian Lexical Innovation" In Hypotheses – Academic blog
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