ဝး
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Eastern Pwo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Karen *hwaᴮ (“bamboo”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤠꤟꤢꤧ꤬ (và̤e), Burmese ဝါး (wa:), S'gaw Karen ဝၣ် (wà).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ဝး (wá)
- (Hpa-an) bamboo
References
[edit]- A. Kato (2009) “A Basic Vocabulary of Htoklibang Pwo Karen with Hpa-an, Kyonbyaw, and Proto-Pwo Karen Forms”, in Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, volume 4, page 200
- A. Kato (2019) “Pwo Karen”, in A. Vittrant & J. Watkins, editors, The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area, page 140