စုံ

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Cognate with Chinese 雙／双 (“pair”), Korean 쌍 (ssang, “pair”). Compare Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”). Schuessler (2007). Also compares the word to Chinese 重 (“to duplicate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: cum • ALA-LC: cuṃ • BGN/PCGN: son • Okell: souñ

Noun

စုံ • (cum)

1. pair

   မျက်လုံး တစ်စုံ

   myaklum: taccum

   a pair of eyes

   ဇွန်း တစ်စုံ

   jwan: taccum

   a pair of chopsticks

2. even number

Verb

စုံ • (cum)

1. to be completed

Descendants

• Mon: စုံ

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese စုံ (cum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cum/

Verb

စုံ (cum)

1. to be complete
2. to be an even number

References

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.