htang

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ထင် (htang).

Verb

htang

1. to anticipate

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaŋ˧/

Particle

htang

1. Used to indicate a superlative of the preceding adjective; -est

   He bang hpung mo nyang yong htang ngoyt da. ― She was the most beautiful in this group. (Quoting Luk, p.102)

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 102