Mon edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔət ~ *ʔəət (used up, finished, lacking). Cognate with Bahnar ơ̆t (to hold breath, to fast), Proto-Katuic *ʔet (exhausted) (whence Kuy ʔɛt ("tired")), Khmer អត់ (ʼɑt), Pear ʔet ("not"), Sa'och ʔeːt ("all"), Vietnamese hết (to be out of stock, to be over, all), Riang [Lang] ʔət¹ ("to stop, to halt").

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

အိုတ် (ät)

  1. to be finished; to be exhausted

References edit

  • Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary[2], Bangkok: Siam Society, page 22