အီၣ်

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *Ɂamᴮ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo အင်း (ʔáɴ), Pa'o Karen အံႏ, Western Kayah ꤢꤩ꤬ (è), Western Pwo အၪ့.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “This etymon is linked to Nungish forms in STEDT. Compare, for example, Drung am (“eat”) and Rawang v́m (“eat”).”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Chiang Mai) /ʔɔ²¹ˀ/^[1]

Verb

အီၣ် • (ʼaẁ)

to eat
(fire or disease) to affect (negatively), harm, destroy
Used after verbs indicating preparation of food.
Used after verbs indicating methods for catching or collecting food.
Used to express that the action denoted by the preceding verb is done for a living.

Compounds

(preparing food):

ကၣ်အီၣ် (kà ʼaẁ)
ဃိအီၣ် (xoh ʼaẁ)
တ့ၤအီၣ်ဖီအီၣ် (taȳ ʼaẁ hpaw ʼaẁ)
ဖီအီၣ် (hpaw ʼaẁ)
ဘၢအီၣ် (buh ʼaẁ)

(catching and collecting food):

ကဝဲၤအီၣ် (ka weh̄ ʼaẁ)
ခးအီၣ် (khä ʼaẁ)
ဃုအီၣ် (xu ʼaẁ)
တခွဲအီၣ် (ta khweh ʼaẁ)
ဖီၣ်အီၣ် (hpaẁ ʼaẁ)

(doing for a living):

ဆါအီၣ် (hsah ʼaẁ)
မၤအီၣ် (mā ʼaẁ)

(other):

တၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီ (ta̱ ʼaẁ ta̱ ʼaw)
ဒုးအီၣ် (dü ʼaẁ)
လံၣ်အီၣ် (leè ʼaẁ)
လုၢ်အီၣ် (lu̱ ʼaẁ)
သူအီၣ် (thoo ʼaẁ)
ဟ့ၣ်အီၣ် (haỳ ʼaẁ)
အီၣ်ကွံာ် (ʼaẁ kweẹ)

Related terms

အီ (ʼaw, “drink”)

References

^ Ratanakul, Suriya. 1986. Thai-Sgaw Karen dictionary (volume 1, page 75). Nakhon Pathom: Mahidol University Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development.

[1] Ratanakul, Suriya. 1986. Thai-Sgaw Karen dictionary (volume 1, page 75). Nakhon Pathom: Mahidol University Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development.

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