တ္ကံ
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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
Thai Mon[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
တ္ကံ (takɔʔ)
- Alternative form of ตะเกาะ