လဲ

Burmese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɛ́/
Romanization: MLCTS: lai: • ALA-LC: lai • BGN/PCGN: lè: • Okell: lè

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m/s-laj ~ r/s-lej ~ b-rej (“to exchange, buy”), whence Old Chinese 移 (OC *lal, “to change places”). See also ဝယ် (wai, “to buy”), which may be related (STEDT).

Verb

လဲ • (lai:)

to exchange
to change

Derived terms

ချိန်စဉ်းလဲ (hkyincany:lai:)
ချေလဲ (hkyelai:)
ခြောက်ပြစ်ကင်းသဲလဲစင် (hkraukprackang:sai:lai:cang)
ငစဉ်းလဲ (nga.cany:lai:)
ငွေလဲနှုန်း (ngwelai:hnun:)
ငါးလဲ (nga:lai:)
စဉ်းလဲ (cany:lai:)
တစ်ဖြစ်လဲ (tachpraclai:)
တစ်ယောက်တစ်လဲ (tacyauktaclai:)
ထည်စွပ်ထည်လဲ (htanycwaphtanylai:)
ထည်လဲ (htanylai:)
ထပ်ကာတလဲလဲ (htapkata.lai:lai:)
ထပ်တလဲလဲ (htapta.lai:lai:)
ပြောင်းလဲ (praung:lai:)
ပလူးပလဲ (pa.lu:pa.lai:)
ဖက်လဲတကင်း (hpaklai:ta.kang:)
မျက်ကလဲဆန်ပျာ (myakka.lai:hcanpya)
မြွေရေလဲ (mrwerelai:)
မလိုလဲလိုလဲ (ma.luilai:luilai:)
မလုံမလဲ (ma.lumma.lai:)
ရေလဲ (relai:)
ရေလဲပိုင်း (relai:puing:)
လက်စွပ်လဲ (lakcwaplai:)
လျှောက်လဲချက် (hlyauklai:hkyak)
လုံလုံလဲလဲ (lumlumlai:lai:)
လူဝတ်လဲ (luwatlai:)
လဲလှယ် (lai:hlai)
ဝတ်လဲတော် (watlai:tau)
ဝမ်းသာအယ်လဲ (wam:saailai:)
သောက်သောက်လဲ (sauksauklai:)
သဲလဲစင် (sai:lai:cang)
အကြွေလဲ (a.krwelai:)
အဖန်တလဲလဲ (a.hpanta.lai:lai:)
အဖြစ်လဲ (a.hpraclai:)
အရေလဲ (a.relai:)
အဝတ်လဲ (a.watlai:)
အသေအလဲ (a.sea.lai:)
ဥုံတလဲလဲဖွတလဲလဲ
ဪလဲ (aulai:)

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (lâi "fall down from an erect posture ( < lâñ )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Bears phonetic and semantic resemblance to Old Chinese 跌 (OC *l'iːɡ, “to fall down”).”

Verb

လဲ • (lai:)

Burmese verb set
Base	လဲ (lai:)
Causative	လှဲ (hlai:)

to fall down (from a standing or sitting position)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (lâi "product of the lak-pam tree ( cotton tree )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”

Noun

လဲ • (lai:)

silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra)
(also လဲဝါ (lai:wa)) silk cotton, kapok

Derived terms

လဲမွေ့ရာ (lai:mwe.ra)
လဲမှို့ (lai:hmui.)
လဲလူ (lai:lu)
လဲဝါ (lai:wa)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”). See လား (la:, “interrogative particle for yes-no questions”) for more (STEDT).

Particle

လဲ • (lai:)

final interrogative particle used with interrogative words
အဲဒါဘာလဲ
ai:dabhalai:
What is that?
(colloquial) Colloquial form of လည်း (lany:)

Derived terms

သလဲ (sa.lai:)

Further references

“လဲ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Mon

Alternative forms

လောဲ (loy)

Pronunciation

(Thailand (Pak Kret District)) IPA^(key): /lṳə/^[1]

Adjective

လဲ (lay)

to be easy^[2]^[1]
Antonym: ဝါတ် (wāt)

Derived terms

(Pak Kret District) လဲသွာ (lay swā)

Noun

လဲ (lay)

friend^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 921
^ อนุสรณ์ สถานนท์, ร้อยตรี [Anusorn Sathanon, Sub-Lt.] (1984) พจนานุกรม มอญ-ไทย [Mon-Thai Dictionary], page 159; Thai translation of Halliday, R. (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society (2nd ed.: Rangoon: Mon Cultural Section, Ministry of Union Culture, Govt. of the Union of Burma, 1955).
^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎^[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 114

[ys1994-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 921

[M-T1984-2] อนุสรณ์ สถานนท์, ร้อยตรี [Anusorn Sathanon, Sub-Lt.] (1984) พจนานุกรม มอญ-ไทย [Mon-Thai Dictionary], page 159; Thai translation of Halliday, R. (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society (2nd ed.: Rangoon: Mon Cultural Section, Ministry of Union Culture, Govt. of the Union of Burma, 1955).

[jmh1874-3] Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎^[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 114

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