"ခိၣ်သူ" meaning in S'gaw Karen

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Noun

IPA: /kʰòθù/, /kʰo²¹ˀ.su⁵⁵/ (note: Mae Hong Son) Forms: khoh̀ thoo [romanization]
Etymology: From ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂). According to Luce (1985), the second syllable, သူ, is borrowed from Austroasiatic; compare Mon သော် (sok). Luangthongkum (2019) reconstructs Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”), positing a connection with Pa'o ကလူꩻ (kəlū) and Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤨ꤬ꤜꤟꤌꤣ꤬ (hkùlṳ̀eoe). Etymology templates: {{compound|ksw|ခိၣ်|သူ|t1=head|t2=hair}} ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”), {{cog|kjp|ခေါဟ်သူ့}} Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂), {{lang|ksw|သူ}} သူ, {{inh|ksw|kar-pro|*khuᴮsluᴬ||hair (head~)}} Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”) Head templates: {{head|ksw|noun}} ခိၣ်သူ • (khoh̀ thoo)
  1. hair; the hair that grows on the top of your head.
    Sense id: en-ခိၣ်သူ-ksw-noun-nnxhS2NU Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, S'gaw Karen entries with incorrect language header
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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "ခိၣ်",
        "3": "သူ",
        "t1": "head",
        "t2": "hair"
      },
      "expansion": "ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kjp",
        "2": "ခေါဟ်သူ့"
      },
      "expansion": "Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "သူ"
      },
      "expansion": "သူ",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "kar-pro",
        "3": "*khuᴮsluᴬ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hair (head~)"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂). According to Luce (1985), the second syllable, သူ, is borrowed from Austroasiatic; compare Mon သော် (sok). Luangthongkum (2019) reconstructs Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”), positing a connection with Pa'o ကလူꩻ (kəlū) and Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤨ꤬ꤜꤟꤌꤣ꤬ (hkùlṳ̀eoe).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khoh̀ thoo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ခိၣ်သူ • (khoh̀ thoo)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "S'gaw Karen",
  "lang_code": "ksw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "S'gaw Karen entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair; the hair that grows on the top of your head."
      ],
      "id": "en-ခိၣ်သူ-ksw-noun-nnxhS2NU",
      "links": [
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰòθù/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo²¹ˀ.su⁵⁵/",
      "note": "Mae Hong Son"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ခိၣ်သူ"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "ခိၣ်",
        "3": "သူ",
        "t1": "head",
        "t2": "hair"
      },
      "expansion": "ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”)",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kjp",
        "2": "ခေါဟ်သူ့"
      },
      "expansion": "Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "သူ"
      },
      "expansion": "သူ",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "kar-pro",
        "3": "*khuᴮsluᴬ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "hair (head~)"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo, “hair”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂). According to Luce (1985), the second syllable, သူ, is borrowed from Austroasiatic; compare Mon သော် (sok). Luangthongkum (2019) reconstructs Proto-Karen *khuᴮsluᴬ (“hair (head~)”), positing a connection with Pa'o ကလူꩻ (kəlū) and Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤨ꤬ꤜꤟꤌꤣ꤬ (hkùlṳ̀eoe).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khoh̀ thoo",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ksw",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ခိၣ်သူ • (khoh̀ thoo)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "S'gaw Karen",
  "lang_code": "ksw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "S'gaw Karen compound terms",
        "S'gaw Karen entries with incorrect language header",
        "S'gaw Karen lemmas",
        "S'gaw Karen nouns",
        "S'gaw Karen terms derived from Proto-Karen",
        "S'gaw Karen terms inherited from Proto-Karen"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hair; the hair that grows on the top of your head."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰòθù/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo²¹ˀ.su⁵⁵/",
      "note": "Mae Hong Son"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ခိၣ်သူ"
}

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