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မြောက်

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Burmese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mjaʊʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: mrauk • ALA-LC: mrokʻ • BGN/PCGN: myauk • Okell: myauʔ

Etymology 1

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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 (mrok "raised, elevated"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[1] Perhaps a semantic extension of the "north" sense in Etymology 2?

The "ordinal" sense is grouped with the "raise" sense by MED, but separated by STEDT (mrok "( num. aux. )") and Luce; once again, Luce adduces no cognates.[2]”

Verb

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မြောက် • (mrauk)

Burmese verb set
Base မြောက် (mrauk)
Causativeမြှောက် (hmrauk)
  1. to be tossed up, be high
  2. to reach the apex; attain the standard set
  3. to be consummated
  4. (figuratively) to go to one's head
Derived terms
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Particle

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မြောက် • (mrauk)

  1. particle suffixed to nouns to form ordinals
  2. part particle suffixed to a verb to denote consummation

Etymology 2

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Generally considered separate from the "raise" sense of Etymology 1, despite similar semantics. Not given etymology by STEDT (mrok "north"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[3] He does, however, consider the word as a combination of မ္လစ် (ma.lac) +‎ အောက် (auk), though gives no glosses for these two terms.

The most reasonable interpretation appears to be that the first component is မြစ် (mrac, “river”) and the second is အောက် (auk, “under, below”), thus "below the river". Perhaps for the proto-Burmish tribes, rivers were to their north (around modern-day Yunnan). Indeed, Ohno considers this "downstream" interpretation to be the most plausible theory, but notes that the river in question could not have been the Irrawaddy.[4]

Noun

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မြောက် • (mrauk)

  1. north
Coordinate terms
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  • (compass points)
Native Burmese
အနောက်မြောက် (a.naukmrauk) မြောက် (mrauk) အရှေ့မြောက် (a.hre.mrauk)
အနောက် (a.nauk) အရှေ့ (a.hre.)
အနောက်တောင် (a.nauktaung) တောင် (taung) အရှေ့တောင် (a.hre.taung)
From Pali
ဥတ္တရ (utta.ra.)
ပစ္ဆိမ (pachci.ma.) ပုဗ္ဗ (pubba.)
ဒက္ခိဏ (dakhki.na.)
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OK Finals (42. to Raise, be Raised; Over and above)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 82
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OK Finals (43. Ordinal Suffix)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 82
  3. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OK Finals (45. North (coalescence of mlac + ok)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 82
  4. ^ Toru Ohno (2005) “The structure of Pagan period Burmese”, in Pacific Linguistics‎[1], Canberra: Australian National University, archived from the original on September 8, 2024, page 272

Further reading

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