ထားဝယ်

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Mon ထဝဲါ (“to sit cross-legged”), in reference to what the Buddha did in the air over the place according to Mūlamūlī (မူလမူလီ), a Mon book on cosmogony[1] or to his sitting posture. See also Burmese ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ (htak-waihpwai.hkwe, “to sit cross-legged”).

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဒါး'ဝယ်

IPA^(key): /dəwɛ̀/

Romanization: MLCTS: hta:wai • ALA-LC: thāʺvayʻ • BGN/PCGN: dăwè • Okell: htăwe

Proper noun

ထားဝယ် • (hta:wai)

(~မြို့) Tavoy (a city in southern Burma)

Noun

ထားဝယ် • (hta:wai)

(~လူမျိုး) Tavoyan people;[2] whose language has been regarded as a dialect of Burmese, but sometimes as a distinct one from it.[3]

Derived terms

(Nouns)

ထားဝယ်ငါးပိ (hta:wai-nga:pi.)
ထားဝယ်ဆောင် (hta:waihcaung)

Descendants

→ Thai: ทวาย (tá-waai)
→ Lao: ທະວາຍ (tha wāi)
→ Shan: ထဝႄႇ (thǎ wàae)
→ Khmer: ថ្វាយ (thvaay)
→ Japanese: ダウェー (dawē)

References

Taw Sein Ko (1888) The Mahājanaka Jātaka: Being the Story of One of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha‎, Rangoon: The Hanthawaddy Press, pages 162, 171
“ထားဝယ်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 519.
Hammarström, Harald, Forkel, Robert, Haspelmath, Martin, Bank, Sebastian (2020) “Tavoyan”, in Glottolog 4.3.‎, Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, →DOI (Accessed on 17 October 2020.)

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[1] Taw Sein Ko (1888) The Mahājanaka Jātaka: Being the Story of One of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha‎, Rangoon: The Hanthawaddy Press, pages 162, 171

[2] “ထားဝယ်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 519.

[3] Hammarström, Harald, Forkel, Robert, Haspelmath, Martin, Bank, Sebastian (2020) “Tavoyan”, in Glottolog 4.3.‎, Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, →DOI (Accessed on 17 October 2020.)