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ရိုး

See also: ရုံး

Burmese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Burmese ရိုဝ်း (ruiw). The "bone" sense is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus (“bone”). MED groups all other senses etymologically together with the "bone" sense, which seems to be tentatively supported by Luce 1981 but not by STEDT, which gives no etymology for the "simple" sense (rûi "plain, simple; artless; honest; old-fashioned"). The various senses may perhaps be linked with the following semantic shifts: "bone" > "handle" > "long stretch or row" > "lineage" > "tradition, custom" > "usual and customary" > "simple, honest".

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ရိုး • (rui:)

  1. simple, honest, guileless, naive
  2. what is usual or customary

Verb

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ရိုး • (rui:)

  1. to be plain, unadorned, outmoded, unsophisticated
  2. to be used to, become monotonous
  3. (archaic, dialectal) to lead, escort

Noun

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ရိုး • (rui:)

  1. long stretch or row, such as:
    1. ridge, embankment, fencing, fluting, etc.
    2. watercourse
  2. brook, rivulet
  3. custom, tradition
  4. lineage, family, ancestry
  5. bone
  6. handle, shaft, stalk, stem, etc.

Particle

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ရိုး • (rui:)

  1. particle suffixed to a verb, denoting veracity of a proposition

Derived terms

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See also

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Further reading

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  • “ရိုး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • Hill, Nathan W. "Evolution of the Burmese vowel system." Transactions of the Philological Society 110.1 (2012): 64-79.
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