Wiktionary

ကိုယ်

Burmese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Old Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”) (STEDT).

The pronoun sense is a semantic extension of the "body" sense, via "body" > "one's own body" > "oneself" (STEDT: kuiy "one's self").

Pronunciation

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  • Phonetic respelling: ကို
  • IPA(key): /kò/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kuiy • ALA-LC: kuiyʻ • BGN/PCGN: ko • Okell: kou

Noun

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ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

  1. (anatomy) torso
  2. (anatomy) body

Synonyms

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Pronoun

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ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

  1. I; me
  2. (archaic) thou

Derived terms

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Further reading

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