အို
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See also: အိုး
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʔò/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ui • ALA-LC: ʼui • BGN/PCGN: o • Okell: ou
Etymology 1
[edit]Of uncertain origin. Has been taken as inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ga (“old”), whence Old Chinese 故 (OC *kaːs, “old things; former; dead”) and Tibetan རྒ (rga, “to be old; aged”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?); however, the phonetics are dubious, and STEDT does not link the Burmese to the Sino-Tibetan root (ui "old (of persons)"). Luce gives Old Chinese 嫗 (OC *qos, “old woman; to warm-nurse”) as a cognate, though the Chinese is thought to be related to ဥ (u., “egg”) instead.[1]
Adjective
[edit]အို • (ui)
- old (of a living being: having lived for relatively many years), aged, infirm
- decrepit, dilapidated
Verb
[edit]အို • (ui)
Derived terms
[edit]- စစ်အို (cacui)
- ဇရာအို (ja.raui)
- ဖျားအို (hpya:ui)
- မျက်နှာအို (myakhnaui)
- လူအို (luui)
- သက်ကျားအို (sakkya:ui)
- သူအို (suui)
- အနာအို (a.naui)
- အဘွားအို (a.bhwa:ui)
- အဘိုးအို (a.bhui:ui)
- အမယ်အို (a.maiui)
- အိုကြီးအိုမ (ui-kri:uima.)
- အိုစနာ (uica.na)
- အိုစာ (uica)
- အိုဇာတာ (uijata)
- အိုနာကျိုးကန်း (uina-kyui:kan:)
- အိုနာစာ (uinaca)
- အိုနာစာရန်ပုံငွေ (uinacaranpumngwe)
- အိုမင်း (uimang:)
- အိုမင်းမစွမ်း (uimang:ma.cwam:)
- အိုမင်းရင့်ရော် (uimang:rang.rau)
Synonyms
[edit]- (old): ဟောင်း (haung:)
Etymology 2
[edit]Likely imitative.
Particle
[edit]အို • (ui)
- word used in addressing someone: oh!
Interjection
[edit]အို • (ui)
- word expressing surprise, pity, disapprobation, etc.: oh
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]အို • (ui)
References
[edit]- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UIW Finals (1. to be Old; Old age)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 27
Further reading
[edit]- “အို” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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