The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 2

Vocabulary

မေးခွန်းထုတ်ဖွယ်ရာ

mye-khun-htout-phwè-ya — Something worth questioning or debatable

အချက်များမှာ

a-chet-mya-hma — The points are; regarding the points

၁

tit — The number one in Burmese numerals

အိုဒစ်စီး

o-dit-si — The Odyssey, ancient Greek epic poem

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; the, is

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at the present time

ဟုခေါ်သောနေရာတွင်

hu-khaw-thaw-ne-ya-twìn — In the place called; known as

အပြည့်အဝ

a-pyì-a-wa — Fully; completely; in its entirety

ရေးသားထားပြီး

yay-tha-hta-pyi — Having already been written; composed previously

နှင့်

hnìn — And; with; together with

မြင်ကွင်းများနှင့်

myìn-gwìn-mya-hnìn — Together with scenes; along with imagery

ပတ်သက်သည့်

pat-thet-thìn — Related to; concerning; pertaining to

အကြောင်းအရာများကို

a-kyoun-a-ya-mya-go — The topics; the subject matters (object marker)

ထိုနေရာမှသာ

hto-ne-ya-hma-tha — Only from that place; solely from there

ဆွဲယူထားသည်

swè-yu-hta-thì — Has drawn from; taken or derived from

၏

ei — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

ခရီးသွားမှုများမှာ

kha-yi-thwa-hmu-mya-hma — Regarding the journeys; the travels are

သူသည်

thu-thì — He; she; that person (subject marker)

လွယ်ကူစွာ

lwè-ku-zwa — Easily; without difficulty; conveniently

ရောက်ရှိနိုင်သည့်

yauk-shi-naìn-thìn — That can be reached; able to arrive

အချိန်မှစ၍

a-cheìn-hma-si-yway — Starting from the time when; since

ကျွန်းများ

kyun-mya — Islands; plural of island

လက်ကြားရေလမ်းနှင့်

let-kya-yay-lan-hnìn — And the strait; along with the channel

ကျွန်းတို့မှ

kyun-to-hma — From the islands; originating from islands

တဆင့်

ta-sìn — Via; through; by way of

မှ

hma — From; ablative case particle

သို့

thò — To; toward; directional particle

ပြန်ရောက်သည့်

pyan-yauk-thìn — That returns; arriving back to a place

ကျွန်းပတ်ပတ်လည်

kyun-pat-pat-lè — Around the island; circumnavigating the island

ခရီးစဉ်အဖြစ်

kha-yi-zìn-a-phyit — As a journey; in the form of travel

ဖြေရှင်းနိုင်သည်

phyay-shìn-naìn-thì — Can be explained; able to resolve or clarify

၂

hnit — The number two in Burmese numerals

ကဗျာ

ka-bya — Poetry; poem; verse

တစ်ပုဒ်လုံးကို

tit-pout-loun-go — The entire poem; the whole work (object)

နေထိုင်သည့်

nay-htaìn-thìn — That resides; living in a place

အလွန်

a-lwùn — Very; extremely; exceedingly

နုနယ်သော

nu-nè-thaw — Young and tender; inexperienced; youthful

အမျိုးသမီး

a-myo-tha-mi — Woman; female person

တစ်ဦးက

tit-u-ga — One person (subject); a single individual

ရေးသားခဲ့ပြီး

yay-tha-khè-pyi — Having written; composed it previously

သူမသည်

thu-ma-thì — She; her (female subject marker)

ဟူသော

hu-thaw — Called; named; known as

အမည်ဖြင့်

a-mìn-phyìn — By the name of; under the name

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi-ko-go — Oneself; herself; one's own self

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-ei — One's own; her own (possessive)

လက်ရာတွင်

let-ya-twìn — Within the work; in the composition

ထည့်သွင်းဖော်ပြခဲ့သည်

htè-thwìn-phaw-pyà-khè-thì — Inserted and revealed; included and portrayed herself

ဤ

i — This; these (formal or literary)

အံ့ဩဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

àn-aw-phwè-kaùn-thaw — Wonderful; astonishing; worthy of admiration

အယူဆချက်များ

a-yu-sa-chet-mya — Theories; opinions; hypotheses; viewpoints

အနက်

a-net — Among; out of; from within a group

ပထမ

pa-hta-ma — First; the first one

တစ်ချက်ကို

tit-chet-go — One point; a single argument (object marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya-noup — I; me (formal or written first person)

အခြေခံသည့်

a-che-khan-thìn — That is based on; foundational; fundamental

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main; primary; principal; most important

အချက်အလက်များမှာ

a-chet-a-let-mya-hma — The facts are; regarding the information

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used after a number for year

ဇန်နဝါရီ

jan-na-wa-yi — January; the first month of the year

၃၀

thoun-zet — Thirty; the number 30

ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ

phay-phaw-wa-yi — February; the second month of the year

၂၀

hnit-zet — Twenty; the number 20

ရက်

yet — Day; date (of the month)

တွင်

twìn — In; at; inside (locative particle)

ပြန်ချေမှု

pyan-chay-hmu — Rebuttal; counter-argument; refutation

မရှိဘဲ

ma-shi-bè — Without there being; in absence of

ပေါ်လာသည့်

paw-la-thìn — That appeared; which emerged; came forth

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in-ga-lèt — English; of England or Britain

အီတလီ

i-ta-li — Italy; the country of Italy

ပြည်သူများ

pyì-thu-mya — The public; citizens; the people

ရှေ့တွင်

shè-twìn — In front of; before; in the presence of

ထင်ရှားစွာ

htìn-sha-zwa — Prominently; clearly; conspicuously

ထပ်ခါတလဲလဲ

htat-kha-ta-lè-lè — Repeatedly; again and again; over and over

တင်ပြခဲ့ပြီး

tìn-pyà-khè-pyi — Having presented; submitted and presented previously

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thì — Is; exists; to be

အယူဆချက်

a-yu-sa-chet — Theory; hypothesis; point of view

နှစ်ရပ်လုံးကို

hnit-yat-loun-go — Both points; both of the two arguments

ထိုနှစ်

hto-hnit — That year; the same year

ထဲမှာပင်

htè-hma-bìn — Right within; inside that very same

အောက်တိုဘာ

awt-to-ba — October; the tenth month of the year

ဘာသာရပ်တို့

ba-tha-yat-to — Subjects; disciplines; fields of study

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

တင်ပြထားခဲ့သည်

tìn-pyà-hta-khè-thì — Had presented; submitted and kept on record

မည်သည့်

mì-thìn — Whichever; any; whatever (relative marker)

ဘက်မှမဆို

bet-hma-ma-sho — From any side; from whatever direction

ကျွန်ုပ်ထံ

kya-noup-htan — To me; toward me (dative particle)

ပြန်လည်

pyan-lè — Back; in return; reciprocally

တုံ့ပြန်ရမည့်

toun-pyan-ya-mìn — That must respond; obliged to reply

အရာမျှ

a-ya-hmya — Nothing at all; not even a thing

မရောက်ရှိခဲ့ပေ

ma-yauk-shi-khè-bè — Did not arrive; never reached; came not

ကျွန်ုပ်၏

kya-noup-ei — My; mine; belonging to me (formal)

အချက်အလက်များတွင်

a-chet-a-let-mya-twìn — Within the facts; among the information provided

အားနည်းချက်

a-ni-chet — Weakness; flaw; shortcoming

တစ်ခုခု

tit-khu-khu — Something; any one thing; anything at all

ရှိမရှိ

shi-ma-shi — Whether there is or not; existence question

သိရှိရန်

thi-shi-yan — In order to know; to find out

မည်မျှ

mì-hmya — How much; to what extent; how greatly

စိုးရိမ်တကြီး

so-yìm-ta-kyi — With great anxiety; very worriedly; earnestly concerned

ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့သည်ကို

kyo-pan-khè-thì-go — The effort made; that one tried hard (object)

သိသောကြောင့်

thi-thaw-kyoun — Because of knowing; since one knows

ထိုသို့သော

hto-thò-thaw — Such; of that kind; like that

အားနည်းချက်များ

a-ni-chet-mya — Weaknesses; flaws; shortcomings (plural)

ရှိခဲ့ပါမူ

shi-khè-ba-mu — If there were; had there been (conditional)

ယခုအချိန်

ya-khu-a-cheìn — The present time; by now; currently

မတိုင်မီ

ma-taìn-mi — Before; prior to; not yet reaching

၎င်းတို့

di-do — They; those; them (third person plural)

အချို့

a-cho — Some; a few; certain ones

အကြောင်း

a-kyoun — Reason; cause; about; concerning

ကြားသိနေပြီ

kya-thi-nay-pyi — Already heard and known; already informed about

ဖြစ်မည်ဟု

phyit-mì-hu — Believing that it will be; that it is so

ယုံကြည်မှု

youn-kyi-hmu — Belief; trust; confidence; faith

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-soun-tit-ya — Something; some amount; a certain degree

ရရှိလာသည်ဟု

ya-shi-la-thì-hu — That one has obtained; saying that received

ခံစားမိသည်

khan-sa-mi-thì — Feels; experiences; senses involuntarily