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 5

Vocabulary

တွင်

twin — In, at, within a place or time

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me (formal male first-person pronoun)

၏

i — Possessive or copula particle in formal writing

သိကျွမ်း

thi-kyun — To be acquainted with, know someone personally

သူ

thu — He, she, they (third-person pronoun)

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly

တတ်သိ

tat-thi — Knowledgeable, skilled, well-versed in something

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, equivalent to 'which' or 'that'

အမေရိကန်

a-me-ri-kan — American, relating to the United States of America

တစ်ဦး

ta-oun — One person, a single individual

က

ka — Subject marker particle, marks the agent of a sentence

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw' — My, mine (possessive form of male first-person)

အား

a — Object marker particle; also means 'to' or 'for'

အာမခံ

a-ma-khan — To assure, guarantee, or give insurance

ပြောကြား

pyaw-kya — To state, declare, inform someone of something

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker, indicates completed action

သည်

thi — Present tense marker or topic particle in sentences

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle or command softener

ကျန်းမာ

kyan-ma — Healthy, in good health, physically well

ငယ်ရွယ်

ngeh-yweh — Young, youthful, of a young age

ကလေး

ka-le — Child, baby, young person

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; also directional 'to'

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung-zwa — Well, properly, in a good manner

နို့တိုက်

no'-tite — To breastfeed, nurse an infant

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done; completion marker

တစ်နှစ်

ta-hnit — One year, a single year

သား

tha — Son; also meat or flesh of an animal

အရွယ်

a-yweh — Age, size, or appropriate stage of development

ပြုတ်

pyout — To boil food in water or liquid

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit-se — Whether, causing to be, regardless of condition

ကင်

kin — To grill, roast, or barbecue food

ဖုတ်

phout — To bake or roast in an oven or over heat

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

ချက်

chet — To cook; a cooking method or dish

အရသာ

a-ya-tha — Taste, flavor, deliciousness of food

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, there is or are

အာဟာရ

a-ha-ya — Nutrition, nourishment, nutritional value

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur

ကျန်းမာရေး

kyan-ma-yeh — Health, healthcare, state of being healthy

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

ညီညွတ်

nyi-nwut — Consistent with, in accordance with, balanced

သည့်

thi' — Relative clause marker in attributive position

အစားအစာ

a-sa-a-za — Food, nourishment, things to eat

တစ်မျိုး

ta-myou — One type, a kind of, a variety of

ဟူ

huu — Called, named, known as (quotative marker)

၍

yway — Therefore, so, thus (formal connective particle)

ထို့အပြင်

hto'-a-pyin — Furthermore, in addition, besides that

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the role of, in the form of

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well, even

အညီအမျှ

a-nyi-a-hmya — Equally, proportionally, in equal parts

အသုံးဝင်

a-thone-win — Useful, practical, beneficial, serviceable

မည်

myi — Future tense marker in formal Burmese writing

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'said that' or 'called'

သံသယ

than-tha-ya — Doubt, suspicion, uncertainty

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is none, without

ပေ

pe — Emphatic particle asserting certainty or obviousness

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto'-kyaung — Therefore, for that reason, consequently

အများပြည်သူ

a-mya-pyi-thu — The general public, citizens, the common people

သုံးသပ်ချက်

thone-thet-chet — Analysis, review, assessment, critical observation

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, on behalf of

နှိမ့်ချ

hnaynt-cha — Humble, modest, to humble oneself

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a ... manner'

တင်ပြ

tin-pya — To present, submit, lay before someone

လို

lo — To want, need, require; like (comparison)

ခန့်မှန်း

khan-hmyan — To estimate, approximate, calculate roughly

ထား

hta — To place, keep; perfective aspect marker

တစ်သိန်း

ta-thein — One hundred thousand (100,000)

နှစ်သောင်း

hnit-thaung — Twenty thousand (20,000)

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, a lot of

အနက်

a-net — Among, out of, meaning, definition

မျိုးပွားရေး

myou-pwa-yeh — Reproduction, breeding, propagation of species

သိမ်းဆည်း

thein-zin — To reserve, set aside, save for later use

နိုင်

nain — Can, able to, capable of doing something

ယင်းတို့

yin-do — Those, they, those things (formal pronoun)

လေးပုံ

le-bone — Four parts, four portions or fractions

တစ်ပုံ

ta-bone — One part, one portion or fraction

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; emphasis particle

ယောက်ျား

yout-kya — Man, male, husband

ရ

ya — To receive, get; resultative verb particle

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun in writing)

အချိုး

a-chout — Ratio, proportion, relative measurement

သိုး

thoe — Sheep, a woolly domesticated ruminant animal

နွားမည်း

nwa-myi — Buffalo, a large black bovine work animal

ဝက်

wet — Pig, hog, swine

တို့

do — Plural marker for pronouns or groups of people

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kyun-daw-do — We, us (formal male first-person plural)

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin-pyu — To allow, permit, give permission for something

ထက်

htet — Than, more than, above, exceeding

ပို

po — More, even more, additionally

အကြောင်းပြချက်

a-kyaung-pya-chet — Reason, justification, grounds for something

လက်ထပ်

let-htat — To marry, get married, wed someone

ထိမ်းမြားမှု

htein-mya-hmu — Marriage, matrimony, the institution of marriage

အသီးအပွင့်

a-thi-a-pwin — Fruits and blossoms; figuratively, results or outcomes

ရှားပါး

sha-pa — Rare, scarce, hard to find

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, on account of

ယင်း

yin — That, those, aforementioned (formal demonstrative)

အချက်

a-chet — Point, fact, key detail, argument

ရက်စက်

yet-set — Cruel, brutal, merciless, heartless

သူများ

thu-mya — Others, other people, those people

သိပ်

thet — Very, really, too much (colloquial intensifier)

ဂရု

ga-yu — Care, attention, heed (as in to take care)

မစိုက်

ma-soit — To not pay attention, not care, ignore

မိန်းမ

mein-ma — Woman, female, wife

လေးဦး

le-oun — Four people, a group of four persons

လုံလောက်

lone-lauk — Enough, sufficient, adequate

ကျန်ရှိ

kyan-shi — To remain, be left over, still exist

နိုင်ငံ

nain-ngan — Country, nation, state

တစ်ဝှမ်း

ta-hwan — Throughout, all over, across an entire area

ချမ်းသာ

chan-tha — Wealthy, prosperous, well-off financially

ကြွယ်ဝ

kywe-wa — Rich, abundant, affluent, plentiful

မြင့်မြတ်

myint-myat — Noble, elevated, exalted in status or virtue

ထံ

htan — To, toward a person; near someone

ရောင်းချ

yaung-cha — To sell, vend, put up for sale

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of; enemy

တင်ဆက်

tin-zet — To present, offer, serve formally to someone

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk-zone — Last, final, most recent, at the end

လ

la — Month; also the moon

နွားစို့

nwa-so — Cow's milk, dairy milk

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung-kaung — Well, properly, nicely, in a good way

တိုက်

tite — To feed, give food to; to fight; building

ကာ

ka — While, as, in the process of (aspect particle)

ကြွပ်ရွပ်

kyut-ywut — Crispy, crunchy in texture

ကြီးထွား

kyi-hwa — To grow, develop, increase in size

စေ

se — To cause, make, let someone do something

မိခင်

mi-khin — Mother, maternal parent

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myeh-dan — Always, constantly, forever, at all times

အကြံပေး

a-kyan-pe — To advise, give advice, make a suggestion

ထိုသို့

hto-thoe — In that way, like that, thus (formal)

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-loat — To do, perform, carry out an action

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of, using (instrumental particle)

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, well, fine, excellent

စားပွဲတင်

sa-bwe-tin — To serve at table, present food for eating

ဝဖြိုး

wa-phyo — Plump, chubby, well-nourished and healthy-looking

ရရှိ

ya-shi — To obtain, acquire, receive, get something

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu-ngeh-chin — Friend, close companion, buddy

ဧည့်ခံပွဲ

eh-khan-bwe — Banquet, reception, feast for guests

နှစ်မျိုး

hnit-myou — Two types, two kinds, two varieties

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit-la — To become, come to be, turn into something

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family, household, family unit

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing, a single item or object

တည်း

ti — Only, solely, alone; also lodging particle

စားသောက်

sa-thauk — To eat and drink, consume food and beverages

အခါ

a-kha — When, at the time of, occasion, moment

ရှေ့ပိုင်း

sheh-pine — Front part, earlier portion, first half

နောက်ပိုင်း

nauk-pine — Latter part, later portion, second half

သင့်တော်

thint-taw — Appropriate, suitable, fitting, proper

ငရုတ်ကောင်း

nga-yout-kaung — Black pepper, a common cooking spice

ဆား

hsa — Salt, common table salt used in cooking

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi-ngeh — A little, a small amount, slightly

အမွှေးအကြိုင်

a-hmwe-a-kyain — Spices, herbs, aromatic seasonings

ထည့်

hteh — To add, put in, insert into something

စတုတ္ထမြောက်

sa-toot-hmauk — Fourth, the ordinal number four

နေ့

neh — Day, daytime, a calendar day

ချက်ပြုတ်

chet-pyout — To cook, prepare food by boiling or cooking

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also 'please' or 'included'

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung-mun — Good, excellent, of high quality

အထူးသဖြင့်

a-htuu-tha-phyin — Especially, particularly, in particular

ဆောင်းရာသီ

hsaung-ya-thi — Winter season, the cold season