ကျေးဇူး

Burmese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လဉ်ဇော (klañjo). Said by the Myanmar–English Dictionary to be borrowed from Pali kataññutā (“gratitude”), from Sanskrit कृतज्ञता (kṛtajñatā, “gratitude”), but this seems phonologically unlikely.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕézú/

Romanization: MLCTS: kye:ju: • ALA-LC: kyeʺjūʺ • BGN/PCGN: kye:zu: • Okell: ceìzù

Noun

ကျေးဇူး • (kye:ju:)

gratitude

Derived terms

ကျေးဇူးကန်း (kye:ju:kan:)
ကျေးဇူးခံကျေးဇူးစား (kye:ju:hkamkye:ju:ca:)
ကျေးဇူးတင် (kye:ju:tang)
ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ (kye:ju:pru.rwe)
ကျေးဇူးရှင် (kye:ju:hrang)
ကျေးဇူးရှိ (kye:ju:hri.)
ကျေးဇူးသိ (kye:ju:si.)
မွေးကျေးဇူး (mwe:kye:ju:)
အကျိုးကျေးဇူး (a.kyui:kye:ju:)

Descendants

Jingpho: chyeju
Shan: ၵေးၸူး (kée tsúu), ၵျေးၸူး (kjée tsúu)

References

“ကျေးဇူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
1999 March 15, 義郎西, ヨシオニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告‎, volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692:

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