တြုံ
See also: ကြုံ
Mon
Etymology
Cognate to Nyah Kur [script needed] (tuj-truːʒ).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Myanmar, Thailand) IPA(key): /kraoh/, /krauh/[2][3][4][5]
- (Thailand) IPA(key): /truh/, /traoh/
Audio (file)
Noun
တြုံ (truĥ)[6]
- man male husband affix denoting the male gender chiefly as final element in (n) (phr.) denoting sex of peson. [7][4][5]
- Antonym: ဗြဴ (brau)
- ကောန်တြုံ ― kon truĥ ― boy[7]
- မၞိဟ်တြုံ ― mnih truĥ ― a male person[7]
- husband[4][5]
- တြုံဗှ်ေ ― truĥ beh ― your husband[8]
Usage notes
- (male): This term tends to appear as the final element of a noun phrase.[2] Haswell includes the term as an affix,[7] but Dryer (2013) regards the Mon language as one of those "which have little or no inflectional prefixing or suffixing," citing Bauer (1982:passim).[9][10]
See also
- (for animals) ကၟက် (kmak)
References
- Peiros, Ilia (1998) Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-142), Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 258 ISBN
- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- Diffloth, Gérard (1984) The Dvaravati Old Mon languages and Nyah Kur (Monic Language Studies), Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House, pages 23, 117
- Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994), “ကောန်တြုံ; တြုံ”, in Mon - Japanese Dictionary (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pages 40, 853
- Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996), “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies, volume 26, page 416 of 411–418
- Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, DOI:, →ISBN, page 176
- Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language, Rangoon: American Mission Press, pages 10, 72
- Jenny, Mathias (2015), “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, DOI: , →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600
- Bauer, Christian Hartmut Richard (1982) Morphology and Syntax of Spoken Mon, SOAS, University of London
- Dryer, Matthew S. (2013), “Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology”, in Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin, editors, The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Available online at https://wals.info/chapter/26, Accessed on 2021-01-12.)