အီ

See also: အီး

Burmese

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔì/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: i • ALA-LC: ʼī • BGN/PCGN: i • Okell: i

Verb

အီ • (i)

  1. (of food) to be rich
  2. to be cloyed, feel queasy
  3. (of river or sea current) to be slack
  4. (of cart wheels) to creak
  5. to moan
  6. (of crow pheasant) to cry

Noun

အီ • (i)

  1. fourth in the set of twelve vowels traditionally taught in the learning of the Burmese language

Pronoun

အီ • (i)

  1. this

Adjective

အီ • (i)

  1. this

Derived terms

  • မယ်တော်အီကစားနည်း (maitauika.ca:nany:)
  • မအီမလည် (ma.ima.lany)
  • မအီမသာ (ma.ima.sa)
  • ရေအီ (rei)
  • အီလည်လည် (ilanylany)
  • အီလေးဆွဲ (ile:hcwai:)
  • အီလေးအာလေး (ile:ale:)
  • အီသာ (isa)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (1. This)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 10
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (2. Surfeit; Cloyed; Sick and Tired of)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 10

Further reading

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *ʔɔᴬ (drink). Cognate with Eastern Pwo အဝ် (ʔɔ̀), Western Pwo အီၩ. Compare Pa'o အွꩻ.

Pronunciation

  • (Kayin State) IPA(key): /ʔɔ³³/
  • (Chiang Rai) IPA(key): /ʔɔ³³/

Verb

အီ • (ʼaw)

  1. to drink