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Burmese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Burmese ရှိယ့် (hriy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rəy (“front”). Cognate with Northern Pumi (rə³⁵ be⁵³, “front”) (STEDT: hre¹ "front").
Pronunciation
Noun
ရှေ့ • (hre.)
- front
- presence
- somewhere further on
- future, hereafter
Derived terms
Adjective
ရှေ့ • (hre.)
- fore, front
- next, coming
Postposition
ရှေ့ • (hre.)
- in front of
Further reading
- “ရှေ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.