ပေး
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Burmese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Burmese ပိယ်ဟ် (piyh), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bəj-n/k (“to give”) or Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pîʔ (“to give”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྱིན (sbyin, “to give, to bestow”) and Chinese 畀 (bì, “to give”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /pé/
- Romanization: MLCTS: pe: • ALA-LC: peʺ • BGN/PCGN: pe: • Okell: peì
Verb[edit]
ပေး • (pe:)
- to give (transfer the possession of something to someone else)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.