Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl — Page 1

Vocabulary

မြေ

mye — Earth, land, ground, soil

အချို့

a-chout — Some, a few, certain ones

ကို

ko — Accusative particle marking direct object

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again, once more, additionally

ရောင်းချ

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

ရမည်

ya-myi — Must, shall, will receive or get

ရိုင်းစိုင်းသော

yaing-zaing-thaw — Rude, uncivilized, rough, wild

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, a lot

ဖိတ်ကြားချက်

phait-kya-jet — Invitation, formal call to attend

သင့်

thin — Your, you (polite); appropriate, suitable

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, owing to

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal, casual first person)

သိကြားစေ့

thi-kya-si — Sesame seed, tiny sesame grain

သည်

thi — Topic marker particle, present tense indicator

၏

e — Possessive particle, of, belonging to

ဂူတော်

gu-daw — Sacred cave, holy grotto or shrine

ဒုက္ခ

douk-kha — Suffering, hardship, misery, trouble

ပညာရေး

pyin-nya-yay — Education, the field of learning

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunction)

အခြားသော

a-hka-thaw — Other, another, different, remaining

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, item

စိန်

sein — Diamond, precious gemstone

လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်

let-wa-kap-tine — Cross, crucifix, Christian religious symbol

အမွေး

a-mway — Fur, feather, hair of an animal

အိပ်ရာ

ait-ya — Bed, sleeping place, place to sleep

အိမ်

ain — House, home, dwelling place

တစ်လုံး

tit-lone — One piece, one unit, one whole

ရောက်လာ

yout-la — To arrive, to come, to reach here

စကားပြော

s'ka-pyaw — To speak, to talk, to converse

စကား

s'ka — Word, speech, language, conversation

စာပေးစာယူ

sa-pay-sa-yu — Correspondence, exchange of letters or messages

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two (number)

စောင်

saung — Blanket, cover; classifier for flat cloth items

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, that/which/who

မိန်းကလေး

mein-ga-lay — Girl, young female child or girl

တစ်

tit — One, a, an (number and article)

ယောက်

yout — Classifier for male persons

ဖော်ပြချက်

phaw-pya-jet — Description, explanation, depiction of something

ခု

khu — Now; classifier for general objects

သဘောတူညီချက်

tha-baw-tu-nyi-jet — Agreement, consensus, mutual understanding reached

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her (third person female pronoun)

မကြာမီ

ma-kya-mi — Soon, shortly, before long, in the near future

နူးညံ့

nu-nyan — Gentle, soft, tender, mild in manner

သိမ်မွေ့

thein-mway — Delicate, refined, subtle, gentle, graceful

လာမည်

la-myi — Will come, going to come (future tense)

နှင်းဆီ

hnin-zi — Rose, a common flowering plant

ရောင်

yaung — Color, hue, shade of light

ဝတ်စုံ

wut-soon — Outfit, suit, set of clothing

စာ

sa — Letter, writing, text, document

သကြားလုံး

tha-kya-lone — Candy, sweet, sugar ball confection

ဘူး

bu — Negation particle; jar, bottle container

ထုနှက်

htu-hnit — To beat, strike, pound, hammer repeatedly

ချက်

jet — Instantly, moment; cooking; a strike blow

ပေါင်

paung — Pound (unit); thigh; loaf of bread

ဆယ်

hse — Ten, the number ten

စွန့်စားမှု

swun-sa-hmu — Adventure, risk-taking, daring endeavor

သို့

thoe — To, toward, in the direction of

ပြန်

pyan — Return, go back, again, translate

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, to reach a destination

ခြင်း

jing — Nominalizer suffix turning verb into noun form

လူမျိုး

lu-myo — Race, ethnicity, nationality, type of people

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung-le — To change, transform, alter, shift

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating action or matter

ခြင်းတောင်း

jing-taung — Basket, woven container for carrying things

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within, in the interior of

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, to be present

ခြင်္သေ့

jing-the — Lion, large wild cat, king of beasts

အကျဉ်းသား

a-kyin-tha — Prisoner, inmate, person in captivity

လွှတ်ပေး

hlut-pay — To release, free, let go, liberate

တောင်

taung — Mountain, hill; south; even, still (particle)

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above, upon, surface

တဲ

te — Informal sentence-final particle, reportedly

လေး

lay — Four; light, small; endearment particle

ရဲစွမ်း

ye-zwun — Bravery, courage, bold strength and valor

သတ္တိ

thut-ti — Courage, bravery, determination, moral strength

လုပ်ရပ်

lout-yat — Action, deed, act, conduct, behavior

သူ

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

မွေးဖွား

mway-hpwa — To be born, to give birth to

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action

အိပ်ယာ

ait-ya — Bed, sleeping area, place of rest

ငယ်

ngeh — Young, small, little, junior in age