နိုး

See also: နီ and နီး

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nó/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nui: • ALA-LC: nuiʺ • BGN/PCGN: no: • Okell: noù

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Burmese နိဝ် (niw).[1] By synchronic analysis, the simplex form of the causative နှိုး (hnui:, “to awaken someone”).

Verb

နိုး • (nui:)

Burmese verb set
Base နိုး (nui:)
Causativeနှိုး (hnui:)
  1. to wake up (from sleep)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

နိုး • (nui:)

  1. particle suffixed to a verb to denote hope or expectation
Derived terms
  • ကောင်းနိုးရာရာ (kaung:nui:rara)
  • ချစ်စနိုး (hkyacca.nui:)
  • နိုးနိုး (nui:nui:)
  • မြတ်နိုး (mratnui:)
  • မြတ်နိုးတနာ (mratnui:ta.na)
  • ရနိုး (ra.nui:)
  • သာနိုး (sanui:)
  • အမြတ်တနိုး (a.mratta.nui:)
  • အမြတ်တနိုးထား (a.mratta.nui:hta:)

References

  1. ^ Rudolf A. Yanson (1 January 2002) A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions‎[1], Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 163–167

Further reading

  • “နိုး” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 586.
  • “နိုး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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