တၢ်

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

Compare Western Pwo ဆၧ, Eastern Pwo ဆ်ု (chə), Pa'o Karen ထာꩻ, Western Kayah ꤒꤟꤢꤧ꤬ (tà̤e).

Pronunciation

• (Kayin State) IPA^(key): /ta̤⁵²/
• (Chiang Rai) IPA^(key): /ta̤¹¹/

Noun

တၢ် • (ta̱)

1. thing, object
2. Used as a pre-verbal nominalizer to indicate an action.

   တၢ်မံ ― ta̱mee ― sleep

3. Used as a pre-verbal nominalizer to indicate the object of an action.

   တၢ်အီၣ် ― ta̱ʼaẁ ― food

4. Used as an expletive subject.

   တၢ်ကိၢ် ― ta̱koẖ ― It is hot.

5. Used as an expletive object.

Compounds

• တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤ (ta̱ ghay̱ ta̱ kloh̄)
• တၢ်ဆီတလဲ (ta̱ hsaw ta leh)
• တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ် (ta̱ doḧ ta̱ là)
• တၢ်မၤ (ta̱ mā)
• တၢ်သဘျ့ (ta̱ tha blay)
• တၢ်အဲၣ် (ta̱ ʼeh̀)