ယောက်

See also: ယောက်ျား

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaʊʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: yauk • ALA-LC: yokʻ • BGN/PCGN: yauk • Okell: yauʔ
• Homophones: ရောက် (rauk), လျောက် (lyauk)

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (yok "wind around, as thread"), and doesn't seem to be in Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ယောက် • (yauk)

1. (obsolete) to throw a garment around the neck or shoulder
2. to wind thread round a bobbin or spool

Derived terms

• ယောက်ဘီး (yaukbhi:, “spinning wheel”)
• ယောက်ရိုးတံ (yauk-rui:tam, “handle of hand-reel holding bobbins used for laying the warp”)
• ယောက်လည်တံ (yauklanytam, “shaft on the hand-reel holding a bobbin”)
• ယောက်လုံး (yauklum:, “spool, roller, bobbin”)
• ရက်ဖောက်ယောက် (rakhpauk-yauk, “to wind thread onto the bobbin; to quill”)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-k-ywak (“poker, pudding-stick, ladle”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སྐྱོགས (skyogs, “ladle, dipper”); the traditional comparison with Old Chinese 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ, “ladle, spoon”) appears phonetically untenable, based on newer reconstructions of the pronunciation.

Noun

ယောက် • (yauk)

1. ladle

Derived terms

• ပန်းကန်ခွက်ယောက် (pan:kanhkwak-yauk, “tableware”)
• ယောက်ကော် (yaukkau, “ladle”)
• ယောက်ချို (yaukhkyui, “ladle”)
• ယောက်မ (yaukma., “flat wooden ladle”)
• ယောက်သွား (yaukswa:, “mussel”)
• အိုးအင်ခွက်ယောက် (ui:anghkwak-yauk, “household utensils”)

 

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (jɑuʔ⁴ "classifier for people"), and doesn't seem to be in Luce 1981.”)

Classifier

ယောက် • (yauk)

1. numeral classifier for people

Derived terms

• တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် (taccumtacyauk, “someone, somebody”)
• တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပြန် (tacyauktacpran, “alternately, by turns”)
• တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပေါက် (tacyauktacpauk, “discordantly, disharmoniously”)
• တစ်ယောက်တစ်လက် (tacyauktaclak, “with each contributing their share”)
• တစ်ယောက်တစ်လှည့် (tacyauktachlany., “in turn, in rotation”)
• တစ်ယောက်တစ်လဲ (tacyauktaclai:, “in turn, in rotation”)

 

Further reading

• “ယောက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “ယောက်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.