ကင်း

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪ́ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kang: • ALA-LC: kaṅʻʺ • BGN/PCGN: kin: • Okell: kìñ

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kâŋ "free from, exempted, liberated"). Luce 1981 gives Old Chinese (OC *kaŋ, “boundary, frontier”) (more commonly represented in modern Sino-Xenic by (OC *kaŋ)) as a cognate.[1] This holds up phonetically well, and the semantics are reasonable.”

Verb

ကင်း (kang:)

  1. to be free from, without
  2. to keep away from, stay away from
Derived terms

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kâŋ "form, as fruit in earliest stage"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”

Verb

ကင်း (kang:)

  1. to begin to fruit
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English king.

Noun

ကင်း (kang:)

  1. king (in a playing card game)

Etymology 4

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kâŋ "centipede, scorpion"). Luce gives Old Chinese (OC *kloːŋ, *kljoŋ, “centipede”) as a cognate.[2]

Noun

ကင်း (kang:)

  1. general term for centipede and scorpions, also used in the names of other creatures
Derived terms

Etymology 5

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kâŋ "watchhouse, sentry post"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Note similarity with modern Chinese (, “checkpoint”), as well as Old Chinese (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, “to look, observe”).”

Noun

ကင်း (kang:)

  1. patrol, guard, picket
  2. outpost
  3. post for collecting custom duties
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AṄ Finals (4. to be Parted from)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 70
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AṄ Finals (3. Centipede, Scorpion)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 70

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