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S'gaw Karen
Etymology 1
From Proto-Karen *rwiᴮ (“root”) (Luangthongkum 2019). According to Luce (1985), ဂံၢ် may have been borrowed from Austroasiatic; compare, for example, Mon ရိုဟ်. Cognate with Pa'o Karen ရွီး (rwî), Eastern Pwo ဝီႋ (wī).
Noun
ဂံၢ် • (ghee̱)
- (အ~) root
Usage notes
This word combines with ဘါ (bah) in quadrisyllabic compounds, also known as elaborate expressions.
Compounds
Etymology 2
Cognate with Bwe Karen wì, Eastern Pwo ဝီႋ (wī), Western Pwo ဝံ.
Verb
ဂံၢ် • (ghee̱)
- to count
Compounds
References
- Luangthongkum, Theraphan (2019) “A view on proto-Karen phonology and lexicon”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, volume 12, number 1
- Luce, Gordon. 1985. Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: languages and history (volume 2). Oxford University Press. →ISBN