ယောက် - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- IPA(key): /jaʊʔ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: yauk • ALA-LC: yokʻ • BGN/PCGN: yauk • Okell: yauʔ
- Homophones: ရောက် (rauk), လျောက် (lyauk)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (yok "wind around, as thread"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)
ယောက် • (yauk)
- ယောက်ဘီး (yaukbhi:, “spinning wheel”)
- ယောက်ရိုးတံ (yauk-rui:tam, “handle of hand-reel holding bobbins used for laying the warp”)
- ယောက်လည်တံ (yauklanytam, “shaft on the hand-reel holding a bobbin”)
- ယောက်လုံး (yauklum:, “spool, roller, bobbin”)
- ရက်ဖောက်ယောက် (rakhpauk-yauk, “to wind thread onto the bobbin; to quill”)
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-k-ywak (“poker, pudding-stick, ladle”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སྐྱོགས (skyogs, “ladle, dipper”); the traditional comparison with Old Chinese 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ, “ladle, spoon”) appears phonetically untenable, based on newer reconstructions of the pronunciation.
ယောက် • (yauk)
- ပန်းကန်ခွက်ယောက် (pan:kanhkwak-yauk, “tableware”)
- ယောက်ကော် (yaukkau, “ladle”)
- ယောက်ချို (yaukhkyui, “ladle”)
- ယောက်မ (yaukma., “flat wooden ladle”)
- ယောက်သွား (yaukswa:, “mussel”)
- အိုးအင်ခွက်ယောက် (ui:anghkwak-yauk, “household utensils”)
| This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (jɑuʔ⁴ "classifier for people"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[1]” |
ယောက် • (yauk)
- numeral classifier for people
- တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် (taccumtacyauk, “someone, somebody”)
- တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပြန် (tacyauktacpran, “alternately, by turns”)
- တစ်ယောက်တစ်ပေါက် (tacyauktacpauk, “discordantly, disharmoniously”)
- တစ်ယောက်တစ်လက် (tacyauktaclak, “with each contributing their share”)
- တစ်ယောက်တစ်လှည့် (tacyauktachlany., “in turn, in rotation”)
- တစ်ယောက်တစ်လဲ (tacyauktaclai:, “in turn, in rotation”)
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OK Finals (47. Num. of Persons)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 82
- “ယောက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- “ယောက်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.