အဲ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɛ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ai: • ALA-LC: ʼai • BGN/PCGN: è: • Okell: è

Etymology 1

Noun

အဲ • (ai:)

  1. eighth in the set of twelve vowels traditionally taught in the learning of the Burmese language

Etymology 2

Verb

အဲ • (ai:)

  1. to make a concerted effort

Noun

အဲ • (ai:)

  1. form of lyric beginning and ending with the / e: / sound

Derived terms

  • အဲချင်း (ai:hkyang:)
  • အဲခိုး (ai:hkui:)
  • အဲခိုးသံ (ai:hkui:sam)
  • အဲထူး (ai:htu:)
  • အဲမောင်း (ai:maung:)

Etymology 3

Particle

အဲ • (ai:)

  1. (colloquial) word interposed when groping for words: er, um, uh, etc.
Derived terms
  • အင်းမလှုပ်အဲမလှုပ် (ang:ma.hlup-ai:ma.hlup)
  • အဲဒီ (ai:di)
  • အဲသည် (ai:sany)
  • အဲသည်တော့ (ai:sanytau.)
  • အဲသည်လို (ai:sanylui)
  • အဲသည်လောက် (ai:sanylauk)
  • အဲဟို (ai:hui)

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔiiʔ (“person”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔoa/

Pronoun

အဲ (ʼoa)

  1. I (1st-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

Mon personal pronouns
singular plural

1st person


အဲ (ʔuə) ပိုဲ (poi)

2nd person


ဗှ်ေ (pɛ̀h) ဗှ်ေ တံ (pɛ̀h tɔʔ)

3rd person


ညး (ɲɛ̀h), ဍေံ (ɗɛ̀h) ညး တံ (ɲɛ̀h tɔʔ)
ဍေံ တံ (ɗɛ̀h tɔʔ)
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