တုဲ

Mon

Pronunciation

(Myanmar) IPA^(key): /toə/, /tuə/, /tʊə/, /tɔə/^[1]
(Thailand) IPA^(key): /tɔə/^[1]
Homophone: တဲ (tay)

Verb

တုဲ (tuy)^[1]

to be finished over to be ready to succeed to be accomplished.^[1]
တြုံ ဗှ်ေ ဒလိုက်ကတဵု နူ ပၟတ်တုဲ က လေၚ်စဴ ကၠုၚ်လ္ပာ်သ္ၚိဗှ်ေရ ။ ― /kraoh pe̤h həlɒ̤c kətɒ nṳ kəmot toə kəliəŋ cao klɤŋ kəpac hɒəʔ pe̤h raʔ/ ― Your husband got up from the fire and came back to your home.^[2]

Usage notes

Haswell (1874) includes this term as “affix. past tense,”^[3] while Dryer (2013) regards Mon as one of the languages that have no tense-aspect inflection, citing Bauer (1982: passim).^[4]^[5]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32
^ Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages‎^[1], volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600
^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎^[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 69
^ Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon‎^[3], SOAS, University of London, archived from the original on 21 November 2022
^ Dryer, Matthew S. (2013) “Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes”, in Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin, editors, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Available online at https://wals.info/chapter/69, Accessed on 2020-10-11.)

[mj05-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32

[mj15-2] Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages‎^[1], volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600

[jmh-3] Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎^[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 69

[4] Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon‎^[3], SOAS, University of London, archived from the original on 21 November 2022

[5] Dryer, Matthew S. (2013) “Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes”, in Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin, editors, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Available online at https://wals.info/chapter/69, Accessed on 2020-10-11.)

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