ထားဝယ်

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Etymology

Borrowed from Mon ထဝဲါ (“to sit cross-legged”), in reference to what the Buddha did in the air over the place according to Mūlamūlī (မူလမူလီ), a Mon book on cosmogony[1] or to his sitting posture. See also Burmese ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ (htak-waihpwai.hkwe, “to sit cross-legged”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဒါး'ဝယ်
  • IPA(key): /dəwɛ̀/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hta:wai • ALA-LC: thāʺvayʻ • BGN/PCGN: dăwè • Okell: htăwe

Proper noun

ထားဝယ် • (hta:wai)

  1. (~မြို့) Tavoy (a city in southern Burma)

Noun

ထားဝယ် • (hta:wai)

  1. (~လူမျိုး) Tavoyan people;[2] whose language has been regarded as a dialect of Burmese, but sometimes as a distinct one from it.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Taw Sein Ko (1888) The Mahājanaka Jātaka: Being the Story of One of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha‎, Rangoon: The Hanthawaddy Press, pages 162, 171
  2. ^ “ထားဝယ်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 519.
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald, Forkel, Robert, Haspelmath, Martin, Bank, Sebastian (2020) “Tavoyan”, in Glottolog 4.3.‎, Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, →DOI (Accessed on 17 October 2020.)
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