zoo꞉

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsəʔ. Cognates include Burmese သား (sa:).

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [d͡zo˩˩]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [t͡so˧˧]
• Hyphenation: zoo꞉

zoo꞉

1. child (son or daughter)
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 8:18 [Genesis 8:18]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[1], page 12:

     Houg꞉ yoomo Noa gi nya꞉ yhoem꞉ seing꞉ myhiʼ- nya꞉ zoo꞉ yi nya꞉ dumooˮ yi yoʼ dageˮ gyid lhid mooˮ zeing mo thu boem bye꞉.

     So Noah with his wife, his sons and his daughters-in-law went out of the ark.

2. Used to form diminutives from other nouns.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzaʔ. Cognates include Burmese စား (ca:).

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [d͡zo˩˩]
• (Chipwe) IPA^(key): [t͡so˨˨]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [t͡sɔː˧˧]
• Hyphenation: zoo꞉

zoo꞉

1. (transitive) to eat
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 3:13 [Genesis 3:13]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[2], page 5:

     Lhangmyu gi hau꞉ shiˮ ri zoo꞉ wa shid reˮ ngoo ri jhuˮ phyoʼ.

     The snake decieved me to eat that fruit.

• Qingxia Dai; Jie Li (2007), 勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN, page 309
• Mark Wannemacher (2011), A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 24
• Hkaw Luk (2017), A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 43
• Hideo Sawada (2024), “Differences between ‘Lacid’ and ‘Leqi’”, in Grammatical Phenomena of Sino-Tibetan Languages, volume 6, pages 33-54