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မွေး

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Burmese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: mwe: • ALA-LC: mveʺ • BGN/PCGN: mwe: • Okell: mweì

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair, fur, feather”). Cognate with Lolopo me (“body hair”), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun (“feather”), Old Chinese 眉 (OC *mril, “eyebrow”) (STEDT).

Noun

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မွေး • (mwe:)

  1. (same as အမွေး (a.mwe:)) hair, fur, feather
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Burmese မုယ် (muy), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mun ~ *mul (“to give birth, conceive, create”); cognate with Kiranti *mun- (“to be created”) (STEDT). Note similarities to Old Chinese 育 (OC *luɡ, “to give birth to; to raise, educate”), particularly with the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of the Old pronunciation.

Verb

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မွေး • (mwe:)

  1. to give birth
  2. to be born
  3. (of pets) to keep
  4. (of fowl and other animals) to raise
  5. to bring up or rear, nurture, culture, cultivate, foster
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Further reading

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  • “မွေး” 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:
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