တ္ကံ

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Mon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh. Cognate with Khmer កោះ (kɑh), Chong kɑʔ, Vietnamese , Mal kɔʔ and Thai เกาะ (gɔ̀).

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) IPA(key): /kɔʔ/[1]
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Noun

တ္ကံ (tkaʹ)

  1. island,[1][2][3] be it even intermittently so, e.g. the raised mound formed by a village site in low-lying areas[1][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Shorto, H.L. (1962) “လ္ကံ”, in A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  2. ^ R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 225
  3. ^ Rev. Edward O. Stevens (1896) A Vocabulary, English and Peguan, to which are added a few pages of geographical names (overall work in English), Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, page 54
  4. ^ R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 435 under လ္ကံ

Thai Mon

Pronunciation

Noun

တ္ကံ (takɔʔ)

  1. Alternative form of ตะเกาะ