ချွတ်

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Burmese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Burmese ခ္လွတ် (khlwat), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-lwat (“free; release; slip; dislocate”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan གློད་པ (glod pa, “loosen, relax, slacken”), Tibetan ཧློད་པ (hlod pa, “loose, relaxed”), Lepcha ᰒᰤᰦᰳ (flját), ᰒᰤᰩᰳ (fljót), Burmese လွှတ် (hlwat), Chinese 脫／脱.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰʊʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkywat • ALA-LC: khyvatʻ • BGN/PCGN: chut • Okell: hcuʔ

Verb[edit]

ချွတ် • (hkywat)

  1. to clean, to scrape
  2. to take off (clothes)
  3. to err, to go wrong

References[edit]

  • “ချွတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • 1999 March 15, 義郎 西, ヨシオ ニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告‎[1], volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692:
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