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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l (“hair, fur, feather”). Cognate with Lolopo me (“body hair”), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun (“feather”), Old Chinese 眉 (OC *mril, “eyebrow”) (STEDT).
Noun
မွေး • (mwe:)
- (same as အမွေး (a.mwe:)) hair, fur, feather
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Burmese မုယ် (muy), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mun ~ *mul (“to give birth, conceive, create”); cognate with Kiranti *mun- (“to be created”) (STEDT). Note similarities to Old Chinese 育 (OC *luɡ, “to give birth to; to raise, educate”), particularly with the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction of the Old pronunciation.
Verb
မွေး • (mwe:)
- to give birth
- to be born
- (of pets) to keep
- (of fowl and other animals) to raise
- to bring up or rear, nurture, culture, cultivate, foster
Derived terms
Further reading
- “မွေး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
1999 March 15, 義郎 西, ヨシオ ニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告, volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692: