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Burmese
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Cognate with Old Chinese 雙 (OC *sroːŋ, “pair”) (whence Sino-Xenic borrowings including Korean 쌍 (ssang, “pair”)) (STEDT). Compare also Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”) (Schuessler (2007)), 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs, “to duplicate”).
The "jungle" sense is grouped with the "pair" sense by MED, though it is unclear if it is indeed related.
Pronunciation
Noun
စုံ • (cum)
- pair, couple
မျက်လုံး တစ်စုံ- myaklum: taccum
- a pair of eyes
တူ တစ်စုံ- tu taccum
- a pair of chopsticks
- brace (of dogs, game birds, etc.)
- set
- both of the pair
- even number
- (obsolete) deep forest, jungle
Verb
စုံ • (cum)
- to be completed
- to be sufficient, complete in number, qualification, variety
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Mon
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese စုံ (cum).
Pronunciation
Verb
စုံ (cum)
- to be complete
- to be an even number
References
- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.