တို့
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See also: -တို့
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /to̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: tui. • ALA-LC: tuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: to. • Okell: toú
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Burmese အတိဝ် (atiw).[1] Luce gives Old Chinese 余 (OC *la, “I”),[2] 曹 (OC *zluː, “group; people of the same kind”)[3] as cognates. Alternatively analyzed as an apocopic form of ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.), ငါတို့ (ngatui.).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respelling: ဒို့
- IPA(key): /do̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: tui. • ALA-LC: tuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: do. • Okell: toú
Pronoun
[edit]တို့ • (tui.)
Synonyms
[edit]- ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.)
- ကျွန်တော်တို့ (kywantautui.)
- ကျွန်မတို့ (kywanma.tui.)
Particle
[edit]တို့ • (tui.)
- suffixed to nouns to denote a group of persons or things
- particle suffixed to some verbs for emphasis or euphony
Derived terms
[edit]- တို့တစ်တွေ (tui.tactwe)
- တို့များ (tui.mya:)
- အတို့ (a.tui.)
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tui "touch"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)
Verb
[edit]တို့ • (tui.)
- to touch (something) lightly, dab goad (draught animals)
- to jot down
- to dip in sauce, etc.
- to instigate surreptitiously, incite on the sly
Derived terms
[edit]- ကြိမ်တို့ (krimtui.)
- ကူးတို့ (ku:tui.)
- ကူးတို့ခ (ku:tui.hka.)
- ကူးတို့ဆိပ် (ku:tui.hcip)
- ကူးတို့လျား (ku:tui.lya:)
- ဆေးတို့ဖတ် (hce:tui.hpat)
- တို့ကနန်းဆိတ်ကနန်း (tui.ka.nan:hcitka.nan:)
- တို့ကာပင့်ကာ (tui.kapang.ka)
- တို့စရာ (tui.ca.ra)
- တို့တို့တိတိ (tui.tui.ti.ti.)
- တို့ဖတ် (tui.hpat)
- တို့မီးရှို့မီး (tui.mi:hrui.mi:)
- နိဗ္ဗာန်ကူးတို့ (nibbanku:tui.)
- ဖန်တို့တမ်း (hpantui.tam:)
- မီးတို့ (mi:tui.)
- လက်တို့ (laktui.)
Etymology 3
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tuiʼ "large basket"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)
Noun
[edit]တို့ • (tui.)
References
[edit]- ^ Rudolf A. Yanson (2002 January 1) A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions[1], Brill, , →ISBN, pages 163–167
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (29. We; I (resp.))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (30. Plural Suffix (nouns, pronouns))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 28
Further reading
[edit]- “တို့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.