တ္ကံ
Mon
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh. Cognate with Khmer កោះ (kɑh), Chong kɑʔ, Vietnamese gò, Mal kɔʔ and Thai เกาะ (gɔ̀).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]တ္ကံ (tkaʹ)
- island,[1][2][3] be it even intermittently so, e.g. the raised mound formed by a village site in low-lying areas[1][4]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shorto, H.L. (1962), “လ္ကံ”, in A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- ^ R. Halliday (1922), A Mon-English Dictionary[2], Bangkok: Siam Society, page 225
- ^ Rev. Edward O. Stevens (1896), A Vocabulary, English and Peguan, to which are added a few pages of geographical names[3] (overall work in English), Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, page 54
- ^ R. Halliday (1922), A Mon-English Dictionary[4], Bangkok: Siam Society, page 435 under လ္ကံ