# ဒး
## Mon
### Etymology

From Middle Mon daḥ “to touch, to be or come into contact with, to be exposed to, to be fitting, right, to befall, etc.” from Old Mon [script needed] (daḥ, “to touch, to be contiguous with”). Cognate to Nyah Kur [script needed] (tàh) and [script needed] (thàh, “to hit, to touch (both transitive and intransitive), to undergo (an undesirable action), to reach (as postverb), correctly”), Khmer ទះ (tĕəh, “to slap”), Stieng dăh “to hit”.

### Pronunciation

* (Myanmar) IPA: /tɛ̤h/
** (Pak Kret District) IPA: /tɛ̤əh/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ဒး (daḥ)
* correct.

### Verb

ဒး (daḥ)
* to hit
    Synonym: တက် (tak)
* to come in contact with
* to touch
    Synonyms: ရပ် (rap), တက် (tak)
* to meet, to encounter
* (to be) correct, (to be) apposite, (to be) right
    Synonym: ဒးရး (daḥ raḥ)
* to coincide with law(s)
* to reach (goal)
    Synonym: (Pak Kret District) ကၠိုဟ် (kləh)
* to fit, to be fitting
* to fall in (with one another)
* (intransitive) to bump
* to be exposed to (wind, rain, high temperature, etc.)
* to undergo (unpleasant experience such as illness), to suffer
    ဒးချာံ ― daḥ khyāṁ ― to catch cold
* (auxiliary verb, adversative) to get
* to hurt oneself unintentionally
* to get into (trap)
* to violate, to break (an oath)
* (to be) cheap
* to hurt mentally
* (auxiliary verb) placed before full verb for implying necessity; must, should
    ဒးအာရောၚ် ― daḥ ʼā roṅ ― must go
* (auxiliary verb, passive voice) to be
    ဒးဂစိုတ် ― daḥ gacət ― to be killed
* (auxiliary verb) used for denoting certainty; must

#### Usage notes

* (to touch): This verb cannot be used freely as a full verb in imperative and prohibitive constructions.
    လ္ပကဵုဒး ― lpa kəw daḥ /paʔ kɒ tɛ̤h/ ― do not touch it (literally, “do not let [it] touch”)

#### Derived terms

* ဒးစိုတ် (daḥ cət)
* ဒးဒုဟ် (daḥ duh)
* ဒးပၟိက် (daḥ pmik, “to require”), ဒးကၟိက် (daḥ kmik, “to want”)
* ဒးဖစပ် (daḥ phacap, “to be at good timing”), ဒးဗစပ် (daḥ bacap, “to be fitting”)
* ဗ္ဒး (bdaḥ)

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 231–2
* 1 2 3 4 5 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
* 1 2 Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages‎, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 569 of 553–600
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) “ဒး; ဒးဗစပ်; ဒးကၟိက်”, in Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎ (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pages 454, 458, 459
* 1 2 3 4 Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 79
* 1 2 3 4 5 อนุสรณ์ สถานนท์, ร้อยตรี [Anusorn Sathanon, Sub-Lt.] (1984) “ဒး; ဒးဖစပ်”, in พจนานุกรม มอญ-ไทย [Mon-Thai Dictionary], page 92; 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).
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 จำปี ซื่อสัตย์ [Champi Suesat] (2007[2008]) “โดน; ต้อง; ต้องการ; ถูก”, in พจนานุกรมไทย-มอญ สำเนียงมอญลพบุรี [Thai-Mon (Lopburi Dialect) Dictionary] (in Thai), ปทุมธานี [Pathum Thani]: วัดจันทน์กะพ้อ [Chan Kapho Temple], pages 72, 78, 94