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ဆိုး

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See also: ဆို, ဆု, ဆူ, ဆုံး, and ဆူး

Burmese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sʰó/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hcui: • ALA-LC: chuiʺ • BGN/PCGN: hso: • Okell: hsoù

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Burmese ဆိဝ် (chiw).[1]

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (chûi "bad, vicious, wicked"). Luce gives Old Chinese 莠 (OC *luʔ, “green foxtail; (figuratively) bad”) as a potential cognate,[2] though modern reconstructions of the Old pronunciation do not support this. Also bears some resemblance to Old Chinese 餿 (OC *sru, “rancid, spoiled”).

In addition, for the compound ချောင်းဆိုး (hkyaung:hcui:, “to cough”), the second syllable ဆိုး (hcui:), is traditionally taken by Burmese scholarship to denote the sense of "bad, serious" as in the above. That said, it could possibly have a unique sense of "to cough" here, and be related to Old Chinese 嗽 (OC *sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ, “to cough”).”

Adjective

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ဆိုး • (hcui:)

  1. bad, wicked, naughty, mischievous, serious, critical, evil, foul
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Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (chûi "dye"). Luce gives Old Chinese 皂 (OC *zuːʔ, “black (dye); soap”) as a cognate.[3] Also looks a bit like Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tsəw-s/t (“to color, dye”), whence 彩 (OC *sʰɯːʔ, “rich colors, vibrance”).”

Verb

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ဆိုး • (hcui:)

  1. to dye, color, stain
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References

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  1. ^ Rudolf A. Yanson (2002 January 1) A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions‎[1], Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 163–167
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (24. Fallow; Ruined; Useless; Bad)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28
  3. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (23. to Dye; Dyed Cloth)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28

Further reading

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