ဝဲ
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /wɛ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: wai: • ALA-LC: vai • BGN/PCGN: wè: • Okell: wè
Etymology 1
[edit]Clipping of လက်ဝဲ (lak-wai:, “left side”).
Noun
[edit]ဝဲ • (wai:)
Derived terms
[edit]- လက်ဝဲ (lak-wai:)
- လက်ဝဲရံ (lak-wai:ram)
- လက်ဝဲရစ် (lak-wai:rac)
- လက်ဝဲလမ်းပညာ (lak-wai:lam:pa.nya)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-waːy (“to whirl, brandish, wave”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (hui, “to whorl, coil; twist in whorls / coils”); outside of Tibeto-Burman, has been compared with Old Chinese 逶 (OC *qrol, “winding, curving; swagger”), 委 (OC *qrol, *qrolʔ, “to bend, hang down”) (though their Old Chinese reconstructions do not support this connection), as well as 洄 (OC *ɡuːl, “eddy, whirlpool”) by Luce,[1] which is a much closer semantic match, though it still suffers from dissimilar Old reconstruction.
The "hover" sense is treated as equivalent to the "whirlpool" sense by MED, though STEDT separates it and derives the former from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to encircle, circular, fence”) (whence Mizo [Term?] (huaŋ, “yard, enclosure”)).
Noun
[edit]ဝဲ • (wai:)
Verb
[edit]ဝဲ • (wai:)
Derived terms
[edit]- စုပ်ဝဲ (cup-wai:)
- ပျံဝဲ (pyam-wai:)
- မျက်ရည်ဝဲ (myak-ranywai:)
- မှီဝဲ (hmiwai:)
- မှုတ်ဝဲ (hmut-wai:)
- ရစ်ဝဲ (rac-wai:)
- ရစ်ဝဲရစ်ဝဲ (rac-wai:rac-wai:)
- ဝဲကတော့ (wai:ka.tau.)
- ဝဲစလုတ် (wai:ca.lut)
- ဝဲစုပ် (wai:cup)
- ဝဲပျံ (wai:pyam)
- ဝဲပြန် (wai:pran)
- ဝဲမကူး (wai:ma.ku:)
- ဝဲမှုတ် (wai:hmut)
- ဝဲလင်း (wai:lang:)
- ဝဲဩဃ (wai:au:gha.)
- အူဝဲ (uwai:)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]ဝဲ • (wai:)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WAY Finals (4. Eddy; Whirlpool)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 22
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WAY Finals (3. to Itch)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 22
Further reading
[edit]- “ဝဲ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.