ချွတ်

Burmese

Etymology

From Old Burmese ခ္လွတ် (khlwat), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-lwat (“free; release; slip; dislocate”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan གློད་པ (glod pa, “loosen, relax, slacken”), Tibetan ཧློད་པ (hlod pa, “loose, relaxed”), Lepcha ᰒᰤᰦᰳ (flját), ᰒᰤᰩᰳ (fljót), Burmese လွှတ် (hlwat), Chinese 脫／脱.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰʊʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkywat • ALA-LC: khyvatʻ • BGN/PCGN: chut • Okell: hcuʔ

Verb

ချွတ် • (hkywat)

1. to clean, to scrape
2. to take off (clothes)
3. to err, to go wrong

Derived terms

• ကြေးချွတ်ဆေး (kre:hkywathce:)
• ဖိနပ်ချွတ် (hpi.naphkywat)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: ၶျွတ်ႈ (khjāut)

References

• “ချွတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• 1999 March 15, 義郎 西, ヨシオ ニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告‎^[1], volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692: