စုံ

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Cognate with Chinese 雙／双 (“pair”), Korean 쌍 (ssang, “pair”). Compare Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”). Schuessler (2007). Also compares the word to Chinese 重 (“to duplicate”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cum • ALA-LC: cuṃ • BGN/PCGN: son • Okell: souñ

Noun

စုံ • (cum)

  1. pair
    မျက်လုံး တစ်စုံ
    myaklum: taccum
    a pair of eyes
    ဇွန်း တစ်စုံ
    jwan: taccum
    a pair of chopsticks
  2. even number

Verb

စုံ • (cum)

  1. to be completed

Descendants
  • Mon: စုံ

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese စုံ (cum).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /cum/

Verb

စုံ (cum)

  1. to be complete
  2. to be an even number

References
  • Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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