စိပ်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cip • ALA-LC: cipʻ • BGN/PCGN: seik • Okell: seiʔ

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (cip "set close together"). Luce gives Old Chinese (OC *sʰib, “to seize; to weave (close threads)”) as a cognate, which seems semantically reasonable and phonetically solid. Other possibilities: Reborrowed from the Mon စိပ်, and/or related to စေ့ (ce.)? Bears some resemblance to Old Chinese (OC *ʔsliːl, *ʔsliːls, “to crowd, squeeze”), though a newer OC reconstruction would be helpful.”

Adjective

စိပ် (cip)

  1. close, near (in time or space)
    Antonym: ကျဲ (kyai:)

Verb

စိပ် (cip)

  1. to be set or placed closely
  2. to occur at close intervals

Derived terms

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (cip "count beads"), while Luce implicitly takes it as an extension of the "set close" sense of Etymology 1, i.e. "set beads close together" > "conduct a ritual (intoning, praying) with beads".”

Verb

စိပ် (cip)

  1. to intone
    ဂါထာစိပ်gahtacip(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. to tell the beads
    ဂုဏ်တော်ကိုးပါးစိပ်guntaukui:pa:cip(please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Luce, G. H. (1981) “-IP Finals (37. to be Set close (of beads); to combine)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 38

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese စေ့ (ce.).

Pronunciation

Verb

စိပ် (cip)

  1. to be set close together, edge to edge

References

  • Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.