ဒီ
Burmese edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /dì/
- Romanization: MLCTS: di • ALA-LC: dī • BGN/PCGN: di • Okell: di
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-daj ~ m-di (“that; this”). Cognate with Tibetan དེ (de, “that”), འདི ('di, “this”), Chinese 是 (OC *djeʔ, “this”).
Alternative forms edit
Determiner edit
ဒီ • (di)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- ဒါ (da)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ဒီ • (di)
References edit
- “ဒီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- “ဒီ” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
S'gaw Karen edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Western Pwo ဒီၩ.
Noun edit
ဒီ • (daw)