တံတွေး

Burmese

Etymology

According to MED, from တံ (tam, “limpidity; liquid”) +‎ တွေး (twe:, “to think, consider”), though STEDT instead considers the second syllable to implicitly be a non-aspirated variant of ထွေး (htwe:, “to spit”), which appears much more semantically reasonable.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respellings: ဒဒွေး, +ဇဒွေး, ဒံ'ဒွေး, +ဇ'ဒွေး
  • IPA(key): /da̰dwé/, /za̰dwé/, /dədwé/, /zədwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: tamtwe: • ALA-LC: taṃtveʺ • BGN/PCGN: da.dwe:/za.dwe:/dădwe:/zădwe: • Okell: tátweì/zátweì/tătweì/zătweì

Noun

တံတွေး • (tamtwe:)

  1. spittle

Further reading

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