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สวย

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See also: ส่วย

Thai

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Pronunciation

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Orthographic/Phonemicสวย
s w y
RomanizationPaiboonsǔai
Royal Institutesuai
(standard) IPA(key)/sua̯j˩˩˦/(R)

Etymology 1

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Jonsson (1991) suggested it was from Proto-Southwestern Tai *suəjᴬ¹ (handsome; slender),[1] but most of Southwestern Tai languages do not have words for it.

Suthiwan and Tadmor (2009) regards สวย (sǔai) as a loanword from Teochew (sui², beautiful).[2]

In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ສວຍ (suāi).

Adjective

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สวย (sǔai) (abstract noun ความสวย)

  1. beautiful.
  2. (of rice) perfectly steamed; well steamed.
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Etymology 2

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Corrupted from ซวย (suai).

Verb

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สวย (sǔai)

  1. (colloquial) to undergo something bad, such as to get scolded or punched.

References

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  1. ^ Jonsson, Nanna L. (1991) Proto Southwestern Tai (Doctoral dissertation), Department of Humanistic Studies, The State University of New York at Albany
  2. ^ Suthiwan, Titima; Tadmor, Uri (2009) ”Loanwords in Thai” In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri (eds.) Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative handbook Berlin, Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, page 612