มืด

See also: มด, มัด, and มีด

Thai

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *mɯːtᴰ (“dark”),[1] from Old Chinese 昧 (OC *mɯːds).

Cognate with Northern Thai ᨾᩨ᩠ᨯ, Lao ມືດ (mư̄t), Tai Dam ꪣꪳꪒ, Zhuang mwt in najmwt (“frowning and worried”).

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemicมืด
m ụ̄ ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonmʉ̂ʉt
Royal Institutemuet
(standard) IPA(key)/mɯːt̚˥˩/(R)

Adjective

มืด • (mʉ̂ʉt) (abstract noun ความมืด)

  1. dark
    1. having very little or no light
    2. radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light; approaching black in hue
  2. (figurative) underground, hidden, secret; wrong, immoral, illegal

Verb

มืด • (mʉ̂ʉt)

  1. (now only found in combination, transitive) to darken; to obscure

Noun

มืด • (mʉ̂ʉt)

  1. twilight (the period, especially in the morning, during which the twilight light prevails)
  2. dusk (the period of partial darkness between day and night)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai (Doctoral dissertation)‎[1], Department of Linguistics, Cornell University , page 342

Further reading

  • “มืด” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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