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kyel ~ kyell ~ kyol /kiːəl/ ~ kyer /kiːər/ ~ kye /kiːə/ PA586     [Angkorian khyal; mod. Khmer ខ្យល់ khya'l /kʰjɑl/ ``n. wind, breeze, air; breath; gas ...''; cf. Old Mon kyāl /kyal/ `Air; wind'1 ]. definitions 1 n. Wind.2 2 n. Slavename. references kye: K.22:30 (A.D. 578-677, C III:143); K.1:14 (A.D. 578-777, C VI:28); K.76:9, 10 (A.D. 578-677, C V:7);3 kyer: K.22:35 (id.); kyol: K.129:3 (A.D. 578-777, C II:83); kyell: K.76:14 (A.D. 578-677, C V:7); kyel: K.765:12, garbled (A.D. 687, C V:53); K.22:23, 26, 31, 40 (A.D. 578-677, C III:143). K.76:9, 9 bis, 10, 14, 15, 16 (A.D. 578-677, C V:7); K.562B:20 (A.D. 578-677, C II:196); K.1:21 (A.D. 578-777, C VI:28). citations karoṃ kyel (K.22:23, 26, 31, 40; K.76:9, 14-5, 15, 16) ~ karoṃ kyell (K.76:14) ~ karoṃ kyer (K.22:35), `below the wind, i.e. north'.4 le kyel (K.22:30; K.1:14; K.76:9, 10), `above the wind, i.e. south'. sre ti le kyel thalā ta ple ver daṅ tap tanloṅṅ (K.76:9-10), `A field to the south of the knoll with a harvest of twelve tloṅ'. ku kyel (K.562B:20) ~ vā kyol (K.129:3), slavename. notes 1 Shorto, 60. 2 Cf. Pou, 108a (kcal), 113b (kyel). LS, 145 (kyel, kyell, kyer): `... < *yel ~ yer le balancer', and 146 (kyell and kyol). 3 Cf. C III:144, note 6. 4 The sense of these two terms has been one of the most felicitous findings of Mme Pou; see her ``Recherches ... (VI)'' and dictionary, 95a, 420b. The terms apparently allude to the southwest monsoon and have the ring of expressions created by a seafaring people. Their rationale is hard to fathom without considering Malay di atas angin `above the wind, i.e. to windward', pointing to India, Persia and Arabia (northwestward) and di bawah angin `below the wind, i.e. to leeward', pointing to Indonesia and the farther islands of the archipelago (southeastward). Note however that the literal meaning of the Khmer expressions is the reverse of the Malay. Cf. jeṅ (tyak), `south' and *tpoṅ1 (tyak) `south'.