A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick — Page 3

Vocabulary

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့တွင်

kywe. no. toi. twing — among us; within our group

အလွန်

a. lwang — very; extremely; exceedingly

များပြားလှသော

mya: pya: hla. thaw — being very numerous or abundant

အပြစ်မဲ့သော

a. pyit. meh. thaw — innocent; without fault or guilt

ငယ်သူငယ်

ngwe. thu. ngwe. — young child; young one

တို့ကို

toi. go — (plural marker + object marker) to them/us

ခြင်းသည်

chying: thi. — nominalizer particle indicating the act of

ကျွန်တော်

kywe. taw — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun)

ထင်သည်မှာ

hting. thi. hma — what I think is; in my opinion

အရှက်ကို

a. shyet go — shame; embarrassment (object marker attached)

ရှောင်ရန်

shawng yan — to avoid; to evade something

ထက်

htet — than; more than (comparative particle)

ကုန်ကျ

kone kya — to cost; to be expended or spent

စရိတ်ကို

sa. yeit go — expense; cost (with object marker)

ပို၍ပင်

poe. yui. ping — even more so; rather more indeed

ဖြစ်ပေသည်

pfyit pe. thi. — it indeed is; it certainly is so

ထိုအမှုသည်

htoe a. hmu thi. — that matter; that case or affair

အကြမ်းဆုံးသော

a. kyam: zone: thaw — the most brutal; the harshest possible

နှလုံးသား

hna. lone: tha: — heart; the innermost feelings or emotion

ထဲတွင်ပင်

hteh twing ping — even within; right inside something

မျက်ရည်နှင့်

myet yeh hning. — with tears; together with tears

သနားခြင်းကို

tha. na: chying: go — compassion; pity (with object marker)

ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေမည့်

pfyit paw se. meh. — that will cause to arise or occur

ဤ

i — this (formal demonstrative pronoun)

နိုင်ငံတော်တွင်

naing ngan taw twing — in the kingdom; in the country

လူဦးရေကို

lu u: yeh go — the population; number of people (object)

ပုံမှန်

pone hman — normally; regularly; usually

အားဖြင့်

a: pfyaung. — by means of; in terms of; generally

သန်း

than: — million (unit of counting)

တစ်ဝက်

tit waet — one half; fifty percent

ခန့်ဟု

khane. hu — approximately; about (with quotative particle)

တွက်ဆ

twet hsa — to estimate; to calculate approximately

ကြသည်

kya thi. — plural verb marker; they do/are

ထို

htoe — that; those (demonstrative adjective)

အရေအတွက်

a. yeh a. twet — quantity; number; count of something

မှ

hma — from; out of (source marker particle)

တွက်ချက်

twet chet — to calculate; to compute a figure

သည်မှာ

thi. hma — as for; regarding; the fact that

မိန်းမများသည်

mein. ma mya: thi. — women (subject marker attached)

ကလေးများ

ka. leh: mya: — children; young ones (plural)

မွေးနိုင်သော

mweh: naing thaw — who are able to give birth

စုံတွဲ

zone tweh — couple; pair; mating pair

နှစ်သိန်း

hnit thein: — two hundred thousand (200,000)

ခန့်

khane. — approximately; about; roughly

ရှိနိုင်သည်ဟု

shi. naing thi. hu — there could be; it is possible that

ယူဆ

yu. hsa — to assume; to presume; to suppose

၏

ei — possessive particle; of (genitive marker)

ကျွန်တော်သည်

kywe. taw thi. — I (formal male); subject marker attached

မိမိ

mi. mi. — oneself; one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ကလေးများကို

ka. leh: mya: go — children (with object marker attached)

ကျွေးမွေး

kywe: mweh: — to feed and raise; to support financially

နိုင်သော

naing thaw — who is able to; capable of doing

သုံးသောင်းကို

thone: thawng: go — thirty thousand (30,000) with object marker

နုတ်ထုတ်

hnot hthot — to deduct; to subtract; to remove

လိုက်သည်

lait thi. — to follow; to proceed with an action

နိုင်ငံတော်

naing ngan taw — the state; the kingdom; the nation

လက်ရှိ

let shi. — current; present; existing at this time

ဒုက္ခများ

doke kha mya: — sufferings; hardships; troubles (plural)

အောက်တွင်

awt twing — under; beneath; below something

ထိုမျှ

htoe hmya. — that many; that much; to that extent

များသော

mya: thaw — being many; being numerous in quantity

မရှိနိုင်ဟု

ma. shi. naing hu — cannot exist; it is not possible (quoted)

ထင်မြင်

hting mying — to think; to have an opinion or view

သော်လည်း

thaw leh: — although; even though; nevertheless

သို့သော်

thoe. thaw — however; but; nevertheless

၎င်းကို

di. nge: go — it; that one (pronoun with object marker)

လက်ခံ

let khan — to accept; to receive; to acknowledge

ပါက

pa. ka — if; supposing that; in the event that

ကလေး

ka. leh: — child; baby; young person

မိန်းမ

mein. ma — woman; wife; female person

တစ်သိန်း

tit thein: — one hundred thousand (100,000)

ခုနှစ်သောင်း

khone. hnit thawng: — seventy thousand (70,000)

ကျန်ရှိ

kyan shi. — to remain; to be left over

နေမည်

neh meh. — will remain; will continue to be

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit thi. — is; to be; it is the case

ကိုယ်ဝန်

koe. wan — pregnancy; being with child

ပျက်ကျသော

pyet kya thaw — having miscarried; having had a failed pregnancy

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe. ma. hote — or; otherwise; alternatively

ကလေးများသည်

ka. leh: mya: thi. — children (plural subject marker attached)

တစ်နှစ်

tit hnit — one year; a single year

အတွင်း

a. twing: — within; inside; during a period

မတော်တဆ

ma. taw da. hsa — accidentally; by mishap; unexpectedly

မှု

hmu — matter; case; affair (nominalizing suffix)

ရောဂါကြောင့်

yaw ga kyaung. — due to disease; because of illness

သေဆုံးသော

theh zone: thaw — who have died; deceased; having perished

မိန်းမများ

mein. ma mya: — women (plural)

အတွက်

a. twet — for; for the sake of; regarding

ငါးသောင်းကို

nga: thawng: go — fifty thousand (50,000) with object marker

ထပ်မံ

htat man — additionally; again; once more

နှစ်စဉ်

hnit sing — annually; every year; yearly

မွေးဖွားသော

mweh: pfwa: thaw — who are born; having been born

ဆင်းရဲသော

hsin: yeh thaw — poor; impoverished; living in poverty

မိဘများ

mi. ba mya: — parents (plural)

နှစ်သောင်းသာ

hnit thawng: tha — only twenty thousand (20,000)

သို့

thoe. — to; toward; in the direction of

ဖြစ်၍

pfyit yui. — because it is; being so; therefore

မေးခွန်းမှာ

meh: khwun: hma — the question is; the issue at hand

အရေအတွက်ကို

a. yeh a. twet go — the number; the quantity (object marker)

မည်သို့

meh. thoe. — how; in what way; by what means

မွေးမြူ

mweh: myu — to raise; to rear; to nurture

၍

yui. — and; so; therefore (connective particle)

ပြည့်စုံ

pyeh. zone — to be complete; to be sufficient; to fulfill

စေမည်နည်း

se. meh. neh: — how will one cause; what will make

ဟူသော

hu thaw — called; known as; so-called

အချက်ပင်

a. chet ping — that very point; that key issue indeed

အရင်က

a. ying ka — previously; before; in the past

ဆိုခဲ့သည့်

hso. kheh. thi. — which was said; previously mentioned

အတိုင်း

a. tite: — according to; as stated; just as

ကိစ္စရပ်များ

keid sa yat mya: — matters; issues; affairs (plural)

အခြေအနေ

a. cheh a. neh — situation; condition; circumstances

ယခုအထိ

ya. khu a. hti — until now; up to the present time

အဆိုပြု

a. hso pyu — to propose; to suggest; to put forward

ထားသော

hta: thaw — which has been placed or proposed

နည်းလမ်း

neh: lan: — method; way; means of doing something

အားလုံး

a: lone: — all; everyone; everything

ဖြင့်

pfyaung. — with; by means of; using

လုံးဝ

lone: wa — completely; absolutely; entirely

ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေ

pfyit naing chyeh — possibility; likelihood; feasibility

မရှိပေ

ma. shi. peh — there is none; does not exist at all