လျော့

Burmese

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (lyoʼ "loose, slack; subside"). Luce gives the obsolete-in-modern-Sino-Xenic Old Chinese 紓 (OC *hlja, *ɦljaʔ, “to loosen, relax”) as a cognate.^[1] This appears semantically and phonetically reasonable. Note also 舒 (OC *hlja, “to stretch out, relax; comfortable”), which is used frequently in modern Sinitic (though rare in Sino-Xenic), and which appears to be related to 紓.”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɔ̰/
Romanization: MLCTS: lyau. • ALA-LC: lyoʹ • BGN/PCGN: yaw. • Okell: yó

Verb

Burmese verb set
Base	လျော့ (lyau.)
Causative	လျှော့ (hlyau.)

လျော့ • (lyau.)

Derived terms

References

^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AW Finals (36. Loose, Slack; to Relax)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 26