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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kal ~ *s-gal (“back (lower); kidney; load; to carry”) (STEDT). Cognate with Old Chinese 荷 (OC *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ, “to carry, bear; load, charge”); see there for more. Hill (2019) (p. 207) adduces 肝 (OC *kaːn, “liver”), Tibetan མཁལ (mkhal, “kidney, reins”) as phonetically-sound cognates.
Noun
ခါး • (hka:)
- waist
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ka-(n/m/ŋ) (“bitter”). Cognate with Tibetan ཁ་བ (kha ba), Nuosu ꈌ (ke), Lisu ꓘꓪꓽ (kʰwɑ̀), S'gaw Karen ခၣ် (khà), and Chinese 苦 (kǔ), all ‘bitter’.
Adjective
ခါး • (hka:)
- bitter (having an acrid taste)
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