မေ

Shan: မေႇ (mèe)


မေ

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“woman; female relative”).

inh

term of endearment used by a man to address his wife or lover


ကျွန်တော်

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ကျွန်တော် • (kywantau)

Contraction of ကျွန်တော်မျိုး (kywantau-myui:). By surface analysis, ကျွန် (kywan, “slave”) + တော် (tau, “honorific denoting power”).

contraction

ကျွန်တော်မျိုး

surf

used by females when addressing another female of same age

(men's speech) I, me (formal polite, used by males in Lower Myanmar)

I, me (formal polite, used as a gender-neutral pronoun in Upper Myanmar)


ကျနော်

(men's speech) I, me (colloquial polite, used by males)


ကျွန်မ

From ကျွန် (kywan, “slave”) + -မ (-ma., “feminine”).

af

(women's speech) I, me (formal polite, used by females)


ကျမ

(women's speech) I, me (colloquial polite, used by females)


ငါ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa (“I, me”). Doublet of ဝ (wa.) (STEDT).


ခင်ဗျား

Contraction of သခင်ဘုရား (sa.hkangbhu.ra:, “master lord”).

contraction

နင်

addressed to someone younger than the speaker


ရှင်

Contraction of အသျှင် (a.hsyang, “lord”).

အရှင် အရှင်#Burmese

(same as အရှင် (a.hrang)) master, lord, noble, powerful person, owner, proprietor


သူမ

From သူ (su, “he”) + -မ (-ma., “feminine”). Likely coined as a female third-person pronoun under influence from European languages, similar to 她 (tā).


သူ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *su ~ s-lu (“who; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person pronoun”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སུ (su, “who”), as well as လူ (lu, “person”).

inh

he or she (gender-neutral third person pronoun)


ဒါ

Originally a contraction of ဒီ (di, “this”) + -ဟာ (-ha, thing).


အဲဒါ

အဲ- (ai:-, “emphatic”) + ဒါ (da, “this”)


ဝ

Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.


ဝ

→ English: Wa

→ Shan: ဝႃႉ (wâ̰a)


ဝ

Borrowed from Hokkien 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).

(slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)


မင်း

(familiar) you (singular, addressing a peer or subordinate, also used between intimate peers)


နင်

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).

inh+

(familiar, informal) you (singular, addressing a person younger than the speaker, otherwise rude)


ဘာ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(b/m)a-y (“what”). Cognate with Jingpho hpa (“what?”) (STEDT).


အားလုံး

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အားလုံး • (a:lum:)

my-pronoun

အားလုံး • (a:lum:)


အားလုံး

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အားလုံး • (a:lum:)

→ Mon: အလုံ


ကျုပ်

ကျုပ် • (kyup)

(informal, familiar, fairly polite) I, me (fairly polite)


တို့

Inherited from Old Burmese အတိဝ် (atiw). Luce gives Old Chinese 余 (OC *la, “I”), 曹 (OC *zluː, “group; people of the same kind”) as cognates. Alternatively analyzed as an apocopic form of ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.) and ငါတို့ (ngatui.).

apocopic form

ကျုပ်တို့,ငါတို့

suffixed to nouns to denote a group of persons or things

particle suffixed to some verbs for emphasis or euphony


ကျုပ်တို့

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ကျုပ်တို့ • (kyuptui.)

ကျုပ် (kyup, “I”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)

suffix

(informal, familiar, colloquial, fairly polite) we, us


နင်တို့

နင် (nang, “you”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)

you (plural, addressing people younger than the speaker, otherwise rude)


သူတို့

သူ (su, “he”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”).


ဘယ်သူ

ဒီဘုန်းကြီးဘယ်သူလဲ။


မယ်

a term of endearment used when addressing young ladies


အနှီဟာ

အနှီ (a.hni, “this”) + -ဟာ (-ha, “thing”)


များများ

ငါ့ကို များများ ပေးပါး။

အတွေးအခေါ် ရင့်သန်ဖို့ စာ များများ ဖတ်သင့်။

a.twe:a.hkau rang.sanhpui. ca mya:mya: hpatsang.||

You have to read a lot in order for your mind to grow.


ကျွန်တော်တို့

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ကျွန်တော်တို့ • (kywantautui.)

/t͡ɕʊ̀ɴdɔ̀do̰/

/t͡ɕənɔ̀do̰/

ကျွန်တော် (kywantau, “I”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)

suffix

(formal, polite, male, men's speech) we, us (formal polite, used by males)


ရှင်တို့

ရှင် (hrang, “you”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)


ခင်ဗျားတို့

ခင်ဗျား (hkangbya:, “you”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)


ကျွန်မတို့

/t͡ɕʊ̀ɴma̰do̰/

ကျွန်မ (kywanma., “I”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)

(formal, polite, female, women's speech) we, us (formal polite, used by females)


သင်

cog

Tibetan བཟིན་བཟང (bzin bzang, “dear sir!”)


တော်

my-verb

တော် • (tau)

According to STEDT:
* The "related" sense is from a Proto-Tibeto-Burman *daw (“to be related”), with Jingpho dō (“related”) as the only adduced cognate.
* The "suitable" (as well as perhaps "clever") senses are from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *taːp ~ *m-daw (“capable, fit, beautiful”), and cognate with Jingpho htap (“beautiful, capable”).
The "rumbling noise", "stop", and "honorific" senses are not listed by STEDT, though the "honorific" sense could be an extension of the "suitable, clever" sense. Note similarities to Old Chinese 調 (OC *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw, “to adjust, train; matching; style”), though the vowels do not seem to match.


တော်

my-noun

တော် • (tau)

တော်နေရာ တော်နေရာ#Burmese

first out of the five blocks of seats to which courtiers attending an audience given by the king are assigned according to protocol (same as တော်နေရာ (taunera))


တော်

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တော် • (tau)

my-pronoun

တော် • (tau)

(women's speech, familiar, informal) you (second person pronoun)


ညည်း

(women's speech, familiar, informal) you (term commonly used by a woman when addressing another woman of same age or one younger; a familiar term of address among Myanmar women)


သည်

inh

Proto-Tibeto-Burman *sin (“body, owner, agentive nominalizer”)

-er, -ist (particle suffixed to some nouns to denote a practitioner of some trade or a person in a particular plight or situation)


သည်

sany (romanization)
ဒီ (alternative colloquial)

(literary) postpositional marker placed at the end of sentence


အသင်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သင် (sang, “monk; you”).


အမယ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“mother, woman”).


ငါတို့

ငါ (nga, “I (informal)”) + -တို့ (-tui., “plural”)


ကိုယ်

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ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

my-pronoun

ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Old Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”) (STEDT). Spelling is influenced by Pali kāya (“body”).
The pronoun sense is a semantic extension of the "body" sense, via "body" > "one's own body" > "oneself" (STEDT: kuiy "one's self").


မည်သူ

မည် သူ (canonical)
manysu (romanization)


မည်သည်

မည် သည် (canonical)
manysany (romanization)


ဦးစင်း

my-noun

ဦးစင်း • (u:cang:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

ဦး စင်း (canonical)
cang: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) form of address used for Buddhist monks


ဦးစင်း

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) form of address used by Buddhist monks


မွန်

(obsolete) term of address used among women


ဥစ္စာ

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ဥစ္စာ • (ucca)

my-pronoun

ဥစ္စာ • (ucca)

term used in lieu of the proper name of the referee


၎င်း

Inherited from Old Burmese လေကောင် and Old Burmese လေည်ကောင်, which was eventually abbreviated as ၄င်း (4ng:), as the first element is a homophone of လေး (le:, “four”).


တီ

interrogative pronoun comparable in usage to adverbs where, why, how, etc.


ကျွန်ုပ်

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ကျွန်ုပ် • (kywanup)

Contraction of ကျွန်နုပ် (kywannup, literally “small/trivial slave”)


အသူ

အ- (a.-) + သူ (su). Cognate with Rakhine အသူ.


လု

Borrowed from Hokkien 汝 (lú, “you”). Doublet of နင် (nang).

(slang, colloquial) you (second person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)


ကိုရင်

ကို (kui, “polite prefix to a young man's name”) + ရင် (rang, “chest”).

af

မောင်ရင် မောင်ရင်#Burmese


ကျွန်တော်မျိုး

/t͡ɕʊ̀ɴdɔ̀mjó/

ကျွန်တော် (kywantau, “royal slave”) + မျိုး (myui:, “type”)

(historical, honorific, humble) I, me (respectful first person pronoun when addressing the king)


ကျေးတော်မျိုး

/t͡ɕédɔ̀mjó/

ကျေး (kye:, “village”) + တော် (tau, “slave”) + မျိုး (myui:, “type”)


ညဲ

(women's speech) you (term commonly used by a woman when addressing another woman of same age or one younger; a familiar term of address among Myanmar women)


အီ

fourth in the set of twelve vowels traditionally taught in the learning of the Burmese language


မွန်း

(formal) midday, noon (used in compounds only)


မွန်း

term of endearment used among men to denote familiarity


တစ်ခုခု

တစ် (tac) + ခု (hku.) + ခု (hku.); the latter is a reduplication of ခု (hku.).


တစ်ယောက်ယောက်

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တစ်ယောက်ယောက် • (tacyauk-yauk)

my-pronoun

တစ်ယောက်ယောက် • (tacyauk-yauk)

တစ် (tac) + ယောက် (yauk) + ယောက် (yauk); the latter is a reduplication of ယောက် (yauk).


တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်

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တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် • (taccumtacyauk)

my-pronoun

တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် • (taccumtacyauk)

/təzòʊɴtəjaʊʔ/

တစ်စုံ (taccum, “pair”) + တစ် (tac, “one”) + ယောက် (yauk, “person”)


တစ်စုံတစ်ခု

/təzòʊɴtəkʰṵ/

တစ်စုံ (taccum, “pair”) + တစ် (tac, “one”) + ခု (hku., “item, thing”)


တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

/təzòʊɴtəjà/

တစ်စုံ (taccum, “pair”) + တစ် (tac, “one”) + အရာ (a.ra, “thing, object”). Literally, “of a pair, one thing”.


တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး

/təzòʊɴtəʔú/

တစ်စုံ (taccum, “pair”) + တစ် (tac, “one”) + ဦး (u:, “individual, person”)


အများ

အ- (a.-, “particle”) + များ (mya:, “many”).


အတ္တ

Borrowed from Pali atta; cognate with Modern Khmer អត្ត (ʼattaʼ).