ခွေး

Burmese

ခွေး

Etymology

From Old Burmese ခုယ်း (khuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, “dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰwé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe: • ALA-LC: khveʺ • BGN/PCGN: hkwe: • Okell: hkweì

Noun

ခွေး • (hkwe:)

1. dog

Derived terms

• ခွေးကလေး (hkwe:ka.le:, “puppy”)
• ခွေးဘီလူး (hkwe:bhilu:, “bulldog; mastiff”)
• ခွေးမ (hkwe:ma., “bitch”)
• ခွေးသမင် (hkwe:sa.mang, “greyhound”)
• ခွေးအိမ် (hkwe:im, “kennel, doghouse”)

References

• Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.