The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 5

Vocabulary

ယခု

ya.hku — Now, at this present moment in time

ကျန်

kyan — Remaining, left over, still existing

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, meaning 'which' or 'that'

သူများ

thu.mya — They, those people, plural third person

လုံးဝ

lone.wa — Completely, entirely, absolutely not at all

ပျက်စီး

pyat.si — To be destroyed, ruined, or damaged severely

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or matter

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative or source marker particle

ထွက်ပြေး

htwet.pye — To flee, run away, escape from danger

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action

အားလုံး

a.lone — Everyone, everything, all without exception

သည်

thi — Present tense marker or topic particle in Burmese

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

နေ

ne — To live, stay, reside; continuous aspect marker

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished; completion marker or conjunction

စစ်ပွဲ

sit.pwe — War, battle, armed conflict between parties

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction or comitative particle

ပင်လယ်

pin.le — Sea, ocean, large body of saltwater

နှစ်ခု

hnit.hku — Two things, a pair of items

စလုံး

sa.lone — Both, all of them together as a group

လွတ်မြောက်

lwat.myout — To escape, be freed, gain liberation

ကြ

kya — Plural marker or group action verb particle

သို့သော်

thoe.thaw — However, but, nevertheless; concessive conjunction

အိမ်ထောင်ဖက်

ein.htaung.phet — Spouse, marriage partner, husband or wife

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; accusative case marker

ပြန်သွား

pyan.thwa — To go back, return to a previous place

ရာ

ya — Nominalizer suffix or approximate quantity marker

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, route to somewhere

တောင့်တ

taung.ta — To long for, yearn, desire something deeply

တစ်ဦး

ta.u — One person, a single individual

တည်း

ti — Only, alone; exclusive limiting particle

သာ

tha — Only, just; limiting or emphatic particle

ချစ်ဖွယ်

chit.phwe — Lovable, adorable, worthy of affection

နတ်မိ

nat.mi — Goddess, female divine supernatural being

ထို

hto — That, those; demonstrative pronoun or determiner

တင့်တယ်

tin.te — Beautiful, elegant, attractive in appearance

နတ်မ

nat.ma — Nymph, female spirit, lesser divine being

က

ga — Subject marker particle; nominative case marker

သူမ

thu.ma — She, her; third person feminine pronoun

၏

e — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'

တွင်

twin — In, at, inside; locative particle

သူ့

thu — His, him; possessive third person masculine

ပိုင်ရှင်

pine.shin — Owner, master, possessor of something

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, exist as something

ချင်

chin — To want, desire, wish to do something

ဆန္ဒ

sanda — Desire, wish, aspiration, will or intention

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ဆုပ်ကိုင်

soat.kine — To hold tightly, grasp, keep detained

ထား

hta — To keep, place, maintain in a state

ရာသီဥတု

ya.thi.u.tu — Climate, weather, seasonal atmospheric conditions

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, more than one

စီးဆင်းမှု

si.qin.hmu — Flow, current, movement of water or events

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two in compounds

ကာလ

ka.la — Period, era, span of time

ရောက်လာ

yout.la — To arrive, come to reach a destination

အခါ

a.hka — Time, occasion, when; temporal marker

နတ်ဘုရား

nat.phu.ya — God, deity, divine supernatural being

သူ

thu — He, him; third person singular pronoun

ပြန်

pyan — To return, go back; again, repetition marker

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; potential or success marker

မည်

mi — Future tense marker indicating something will happen

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker meaning 'saying that' or 'thus'

မှာကြား

hma.kya — To order, command, instruct someone to do

နေရာ

ne.ya — Place, location, position, spot

၌

hnit — At, in; locative particle for specific location

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphatic or concessive particle

လျှင်

hlyhin — If, when; conditional or temporal conjunction

ကြိုးပမ်း

kyo.pan — To strive, make effort, try hard

အားထုတ်

a.htwet — To exert effort, apply force or energy

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix converting verbs to noun forms

မ

ma — Negation prefix meaning 'not' or 'no'

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, be present somewhere

သေး

the — Still, yet; not yet, additional negation marker

မိမိ

mi.mi — Oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun

ကြား

kya — Between, among; to hear, the space between

ဆို

so — To say, state; quotative or conditional marker

တပါး

ta.pa — Another, other, a different person or thing

သနား

tha.na — To pity, feel compassion or mercy for someone

နတ်သဖွယ်

nat.tha.phwe — Godlike, divine in nature or appearance

၎င်း

di.gin — He, she, it; formal third person pronoun

နိုင်ငံ

nine.ngan — Country, nation, state, homeland

အထိ

a.hti — Until, up to, as far as a point

အစဉ်

a.sin — Always, continuously, in sequence or order

မပြတ်

ma.pyat — Without stopping, continuously, incessantly

ရန်ငြိုး

yan.nyo — Grudge, enmity, hostile ill will toward someone

ဝေးလံ

we.lan — Far away, distant, remote location

သား

tha — Son, offspring, male child of someone

ထံ

htan — Near, with, at someone's side; proximity marker

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet.hkwa — To depart, leave, go away from a place

သွား

thwa — To go, travel, move away from here

ပြီ

pyi — Already, completion marker indicating finished action

နှစ်ဖွဲ့

hnit.phwe — To be fond of, love, feel affection toward

ကွဲ

kwe — To separate, split apart, be divided from

ထွက်

htwet — To exit, go out, come out of somewhere

လူသား

lu.tha — Human being, mankind, mortal person

အဆုံးစွန်

a.zone.swan — Extreme, uttermost, at the very furthest end

ဆုံး

zone — To end, perish, die; final or extreme point

အချို့

a.cho — Some, certain, a few of a group

နစ်မြုပ်

nit.myout — To sink, drown, be submerged in water

နေထိုင်

ne.htine — To live, reside, dwell in a place

နွားထီး

nwa.hti — Bull, male cattle, ox

သိုးထီး

tho.hti — Ram, male sheep used in sacrificial offerings

ကြီးမား

kyi.ma — Great, large, enormous, significant in scale

ယဇ်ပူဇော်မှု

yat.pu.zaw.hmu — Sacrifice, offering, religious ritual act of worship

လက်ခံ

let.hkan — To accept, receive, welcome something or someone

ရရှိ

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

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of doing

မျှော်လင့်

myo.lin — To hope, expect, look forward to something

ပွဲတော်

pwe.daw — Festival, celebration, grand feast or ceremony

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, be seated, take a seat

ကာ

ka — While doing, continuative action connector particle

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw.shwin.hmu — Happiness, joy, pleasure, state of delight

ပြုလုပ်

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

ခန်းမ

khan.ma — Hall, chamber, large meeting or assembly room

စု

su — To gather, collect, assemble together

ဝေး

we — Far, distant, remote, away from here

ထို့နောက်

hto.nout — After that, then, subsequently in sequence

သူတို့

thu.to — They, them; third person plural pronoun

ဖခင်

hpa.hkin — Father, male parent of a child

စကား

sa.ka — Words, speech, language, conversation

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, talk, tell someone

စတင်

sa.tin — To begin, start, commence an action

အကြောင်း

a.kyin — Reason, cause, topic, subject matter about

မှာ

hma — At, in; location particle or instruction marker

နှလုံးသား

hnalone.tha — Heart, innermost feelings, emotional core of person

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within, into the interior of something

ဂုဏ်သတင်း

gun.tha.din — Fame, reputation, glory, renowned name of someone

ကြီး

kyi — Big, large, great, elder; intensifying adjective

သတိရ

tha.ti.ya — To remember, recall, keep in memory

လာ

la — To come; directional particle toward the speaker

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, on account of reason

ကျော်ကြား

kyaw.kya — Famous, renowned, well-known, celebrated widely

လှ

hla — Beautiful, lovely, attractive, pretty in appearance

သတ်ဖြတ်

that.hpyat — To kill, slay, murder, take someone's life

တွေးတော

twe.taw — To think, contemplate, ponder, reflect deeply

မသေနိုင်

ma.the.nine — Cannot die, immortal, deathless supernatural being

ပြောဆို

pyaw.so — To speak, say, express verbally in words

ကြည့်

kyi — To look, watch, observe, examine something

လိုက်

lite — To follow, go along; directional or manner marker

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also 'also, too, as well'

သေတတ်

the.tat — Mortal, subject to death, able to die

မည်မျှ

mi.mya — How much, how many, to what extent

အချည်းနှီး

a.chi.hni — In vain, fruitlessly, without purpose or result

အပြစ်

a.pyit — Fault, sin, blame, wrongdoing, offense

တင်

tin — To place, attribute to; only, just, merely

နည်း

nyi — Method, way, means; few, little in amount

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya.nau.to — We, us; first person plural formal pronoun

ဒုက္ခဆင်းရဲ

dut.hka.sin.ye — Suffering, misery, hardship, pain and distress

ဆင်းသက်

sin.thet — To descend from, originate, come down from

မဟုတ်

ma.hout — Is not, are not; negation of being

မျက်မမြင်

myet.ma.myin — Blind, unable to see, without sight

မိမိတို့

mi.mi.to — Ourselves, ourselves plural; reflexive group pronoun

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko.tine — Oneself, personally, by one's own self

ကြမ္မာ

kyamma — Fate, destiny, karma, one's allotted fortune

မပေး

ma.pe — Not give, withhold, refuse to provide something

ဝေဒနာ

we.da.na — Pain, suffering, physical or emotional anguish

ခံစား

khan.sa — To experience, feel, endure, suffer something

ဆိုနိုင်

so.nine — Can say, able to assert or claim something