Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore — Page 9

Vocabulary

ရွာ

ywa — Village; small rural settlement

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each; region or state division

သည်

thit — Grammatical topic marker or present tense indicator

မြစ်

myit — River; large flowing body of water

တစ်စင်း

tit-sin — One long object, classifier for rivers or snakes

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe-ma-hote — Or; otherwise; alternatively between two options

ရေ

yay — Water; liquid essential for life

လမ်းကြောင်း

lan-kjoun — Route; path; course of direction

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single item or unit

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with another thing

နီးကပ်

ni-kut — Close; nearby; in close proximity

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which is

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; spot or position

တွင်

twing — In; at; inside a place or time

တည်ရှိ

tay-shi — To exist; to be located or situated

ပြီး

pyi — After; already; completion of an action

ထို

htoe — That; those; referring to something previously mentioned

ကမ်းပါး

kan-ba — Riverbank; steep bank along a river

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

တလျှောက်

ta-hlout — Along; throughout the length of something

၌

hnit — At; in; locative particle indicating location

ရေတွင်း

yay-twin — Water well; dug well for water access

တိမ်တိမ်

tein-tein — Shallow; not deep in depth

လေး

lay — Four; also an emphasis or endearment particle

တူးဖော်

tu-baw — To dig; to excavate underground

ထား

hta — To place; to put; to keep something

ကြ

kja — Plural verb marker; to do together collectively

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative case particle

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know; to be aware of something

ရ

ya — To obtain; to get; able to receive

အမျိုးသမီး

a-myo-tha-mi — Woman; female person

သစ်ပင်

thit-pin — Tree; woody plant growing tall

အရိပ်

a-yit — Shadow; shade cast by an object

အောက်

out — Under; below; beneath something

စုဝေး

su-way — To gather; to assemble together in a group

ကာ

ka — While; during; a connective particle

ခပ်ယူ

khut-yu — To draw or scoop water

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to self

တို့

toe — Plural pronoun marker; we or they

အိမ်

ein — House; home; dwelling place

သို့

thoe — To; toward; directional particle

သယ်ဆောင်

thay-saung — To carry; to transport from one place

ဆံပင်

hsun-bin — Hair; strands of hair on the head

လျှော်ဖွပ်

hlshaw-bwut — To wash clothes; to launder garments

ရေချိုး

yay-cho — To bathe; to shower or wash the body

တွေ့

tway — To meet; to find; to encounter someone

စာ

sa — Letter; writing; page; book or text

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

တစ်ယောက်

tit-yout — One person; a single individual

တည်း

tay — Alone; only; just one exclusive thing

သွားလာ

thwa-la — To travel; to come and go; movement

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ခဲယဉ်းစွာ

khay-yin-zwa — With difficulty; in a hard or challenging manner

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; exclusive particle

ပြု

pyu — To do; to make; to perform an action

အကြောင်း

a-kjoun — Reason; cause; matter; about a topic

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative or future marker

ရန်သူ

yan-thu — Enemy; foe; hostile person

နီး

ni — Near; close; not far away

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; to remain; sun

နိုင်

nine — Can; able to; capable of doing something

ဖြစ်ရာ

phyit-ya — Therefore; as a result; because of that

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

အများစု

a-mya-zu — Majority; most of; the greater number

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly; at the same time

မပါ

ma-pa — Without; not included; absent or lacking

ပါက

pa-kha — If; in the event that; conditional particle

တိုက်ခိုက်

tite-khite — To attack; to assault; to fight against

ခံ

khan — To receive; to endure; to suffer something

သည့်

thint — Relative clause particle referring to nouns

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when something happens

သတိပေး

thati-pay — To warn; to give notice or caution

ချက်

chut — Immediately; at once; instantly right away

ပြန့်ပွား

pyant-bwa — To spread; to proliferate; to expand widely

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of something

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyi — Help; assistance; aid given to someone

ရယူ

ya-yu — To obtain; to acquire; to get something

မဖြစ်နိုင်

ma-phyit-nine — Impossible; unable to happen or occur

ပေ

pay — Feet unit of measure; also softening particle

စမ်းရေ

san-yay — Spring water; fresh natural water source

တွင်း

twin — Hole; pit; well; inside a cavity

မှ

hma — From; since; originating from a place

တက်

tat — To rise; to climb; to ascend upward

သွား

thwa — To go; to leave toward a destination

လမ်း

lan — Road; path; way; street for travel

၏

ay — Possessive genitive particle; belonging to something

ခေါင်း

khaung — Head; the top part of the body

ပြသ

pya-tha — To show; to demonstrate; to display something

ဝါး

wa — Bamboo; tall grass-like plant used for building

တိုင်

tine — Post; pillar; pole; to complain or report

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is something

စစ်သည်

sit-thit — Soldier; military fighter or combatant

အထူး

a-htu — Special; particular; especially notable

အောင်မြင်

aung-myin — To succeed; to be victorious or triumphant

ခဲ့

khay — Past tense marker; did previously in the past

အခြေအနေ

a-chay-a-nay — Situation; condition; circumstance or state of affairs

ဤသော

i-thaw — This; these; referring to nearby thing

စစ်ကြိုးပမ်းမှု

sit-kjo-pan-hmu — Military campaign; war effort or operation

သက်သေ

thet-thay — Evidence; witness; proof of something

အခြေချ

a-chay-cha — To settle; to establish a base or foundation

နေထိုင်

nay-htine — To reside; to live in a place

ရာ

ya — Hundred; also a nominalizing or relative particle

လုံး

lone — Whole; entire; round object classifier

ဝန်းရံ

wan-yan — To surround; to encircle around something

မြို့

myo — Town; city; urban settlement

ပတ်လည်

pat-lé — Around; surrounding; on all sides

ကာကွယ်ရေး

ka-khway-yay — Defense; protection; security measures

နံရံ

nan-yan — Wall; vertical surface of a building

ယေဘုယျ

yay-bhu-ya — General; in general terms; broadly speaking

အားဖြင့်

a-phyin — By means of; through; in terms of

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by; using; instrumental particle

ဆောက်လုပ်

hsout-lut — To build; to construct a structure

သော်လည်း

thaw-lé — However; although; even though; nevertheless

အချို့

a-cho — Some; a few; certain ones among many

ကိစ္စ

kit-sa — Matter; affair; issue or concern

ကြောက်မက်

kjout-met — Fearful; frightening; causing terror or dread

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phway-kaung — Worthy of; deserving to be felt

မြွေ

mway — Snake; legless reptile

ကြီး

kji — Big; large; great in size

ဖွဲ့စည်း

phway-si — To form; to organize; to establish a group

ဤ

i — This; these; demonstrative pronoun for nearby

အတွင်း

a-twin — Inside; within; interior of something

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number of; a lot

ခင်း

khin — To spread; to lay out flat on surface

ကြမ်းပြင်

kjan-pyin — Floor; the flat bottom surface of a room

မြေပြင်

myay-pyin — Ground; earth; flat surface of the land

မြင့်မြင့်

myint-myint — High; tall; elevated in height

မားမား

ma-ma — Very high; prominently tall or elevated

တင်

tin — To place on; to load; to submit something

၍

yway — Therefore; and then; connective particle linking clauses

အမိုးအကာ

a-mo-a-ka — Roof; shelter; overhead covering for protection

မြက်ပင်

myut-pin — Grass; small green ground-covering plants

မိုး

mo — Rain; sky; the heavens above

သေးငယ်

thay-ngay — Small; tiny; little in size

ဆောင်ဝ

hsaung-wa — Veranda; porch; covered entrance of a building

ဆီ

hsi — Oil; toward; in the direction of

တက်ရောက်

tat-yout — To attend; to participate in an event

တံခါး

tan-kha — Door; gate; entrance to a room or building

နေထိုင်ရာ

nay-htine-ya — Place of residence; dwelling; where one lives

ဆောင်

hsaung — Hall; building; to carry or conduct something

ထဲ

htay — Inside; within; into a space

ဖွင့်

phwin — To open; to unlock; to start something

အနည်းဆုံး

a-ní-zone — At least; the minimum amount or number

တစ်စိတ်

tit-seit — One part; a portion of something

တစ်ပိုင်း

tit-pine — One portion; one section or half

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family; household; group of related people

သုံး

thone — Three; to use; to utilize something

အခန်း

a-khan — Room; chamber; section of a building

အပြင်

a-pyin — Outside; exterior; beyond the boundary

မီးဖိုချောင်

mi-bho-chaung — Kitchen; room for cooking food

လည်း

lé — Also; too; as well; additionally

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To include; to participate; to be part of

ကိုး

ko — Nine; also emphasis particle at sentence end

ခန်း

khan — Room; hall; compartment or section

ဖြေရှင်းမှု

phyay-shin-hmu — Solution; resolution; act of solving a problem

အကြိမ်ကြိမ်

a-kjein-kjein — Repeatedly; many times; over and over

ဖော်ပြ

baw-pya — To describe; to indicate; to explain or show