သွ

Mon

Etymology

စ (ca /ɕiəʔ/, “to eat”) + nominalizing infix -w-.[1] Compare also a Dvaravati Mon pair *caaʔ “to eat” : *cwaaʔ “flesh”, reconstructed by Diffloth (1984:263ff).[2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Myanmar) IPA(key): /hwaʔ/, /kʰwaʔ/
  • (Myanmar)
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  • (Thailand) IPA(key): /faʔ/[1]

Noun

သွ (swa)

  1. dish eaten as accompaniment to rice; curry; soup; broth.[4][5]

References
  1. Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon‎, SOAS, University of London, archived from the original on 2022-11-21, page 280
  2. Diffloth, Gérard (1984) The Dvaravati Old Mon Language and Nyah Kur (Monic language studies, vol. 1)‎, Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House, →ISBN
  3. Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 60
  4. Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  5. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 126
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