တဲ

See also: တဲ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tai: • ALA-LC: tai • BGN/PCGN: tè: • Okell: tè

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to Mon တာဲ, and probably borrowed from it.”

Noun

တဲ • (tai:)

1. hut, shed, booth, tent

   Synonyms: တဲကုပ် (tai:kup), တဲအုံ (tai:um)

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• ကင်းတဲ (kang:tai:)
• ဂါတ်တဲ (gattai:)
• တစ်ဖက်ယပ်တဲ (tachpak-yaptai:)
• တဲကုပ် (tai:kup)
• တဲပုတ် (tai:put)
• တဲရှင် (tai:hrang)
• တဲလင့် (tai:lang.)
• တဲလျား (tai:lya:)
• တဲအုံ (tai:um)
• ဗိုလ်တဲ (builtai:)
• မိုးကာတဲ (mui:katai:)
• ရွက်ထည်တဲ (rwakhtanytai:)
• လယ်တဲ (laitai:)
• သံတဲ (samtai:)
• သစ်ခက်တဲ (sachkaktai:)

 

(Verbs)

• တဲထိုး (tai:htui:)
• ပြည်တဲရေး (pranytai:re:)
• ပြူးတူးပြဲတဲဖြစ် (pru:tu:prai:tai:hprac)

 

Etymology 2

Colloquial form of တည်း (tany:).

Verb

တဲ • (tai:)

1. colloquial form of တည်း (tany:, “to put up at, lodge”)

Derived terms

• တဲတဲ (tai:tai:)
• တဲသလိပ်ဆွယ် (tai:sa.liphcwai)

 

Further reading

• “တဲ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “တဲ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 489.

Mon

Etymology

Cognate to Vietnamese tay, Khmer ដៃ (day).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) IPA^(key): /tuə/, /tɯə/, /tʊə/, /tɔə/^[2]
• (Thailand) IPA^(key): /tɔə/^[3], /toa/^[4]
• Homophone: တုဲ (tuy)

Noun

တဲ (tay)^[1][2]

1. hand^[5]

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• တဲဇွိ (tay jwi)
• တဲသ္တုံ

References

1. Peiros, Ilia (1998) Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-142)‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 254
2. Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32
3. ^[2]
4. Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies‎, volume 26, page 415
5. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 70

S'gaw Karen

Verb

တဲ • (teh)

1. to tell, say