တနင်္လာ

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တနင်္လာ

Days of the week
လာ
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Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese တန်နှင်လာ.

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Particularly: “The last syllable is quite likely to be လ (la., “moon”). According to Luce, the first two syllables, *တန်နှင် (*tanhnang), mean "governor", adducing Old Chinese 政 (OC *tjeŋs, “government”) as a cognate,^[1] so Monday would mean something like "governor of the moon".”

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: တ'နင်းလာ
IPA^(key): /tənɪ́ɴlà/
Romanization: MLCTS: ta.nangla • ALA-LC: tanaṅʻlā • BGN/PCGN: tănin:la • Okell: tănìñla

Noun

တနင်္လာ • (ta.nangla)

Monday

Derived terms

တနင်္လာအရပ် (ta.nanglaa.rap)

Descendants

→ Shan: တၼင်းလႃႇ (tǎ náng làa)
→ Pa'o Karen: တနင်ꩻလာႏ

References

^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AṄ Finals (72. Governor [Sun, Moon])”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 74