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Khmer

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔət ~ *ʔəət (used up, finished, lacking). Cognate with Bahnar ơ̆t (to hold breath, to fast), Proto-Katuic *ʔet (exhausted) (whence Kuy ʔɛt ("tired")), Mon အိုတ် (to be finished, exhausted), Pear ʔet ("not"), Sa'och ʔeːt ("all"), Vietnamese hết (to be out of stock, to be over, all), Riang [Lang] ʔət¹ ("to stop, to halt").

Compare also Thai อด (òt, to endure, to starve).

Pronunciation

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Orthographic and Phonemic អត់
ʼt´
WT romanisation ʼɑt
(standard) IPA(key) /ʔɑt/

Particle

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អត់ (ʼɑt)

  1. no, not

Synonyms

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Verb

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អត់ (ʼɑt) (abstract noun ការអត់)

  1. to be without, lacking, deprived of, missing, to lack, be short of
  2. to bear, endure, put up with, withstand, resist
  3. to restrain oneself, to abstain from, to control oneself, to be patient
  4. should not, ought not