ချို

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kyəw (“sweet”). Cognate with Nuosu ꐔ (qy, “sweet”), Lolopo ci (“sweet”), Rawang kí and Naxi qiq (“sweet”).


ချို

(colloquial) to not do anything to the fullest extent; to not go full out


ပန်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“to bloom; flower”), which is perhaps an areal word (compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ (“flower”)). Cognate with Tibetan [script needed] (ḥbar-ba, “to blossom”), Old Chinese 葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”), 疤 (OC *praː, “scar”) (STEDT). The "red, pink" sense is derived from how the color of many flowers is pink.

cog

my:ပန်း (သံတူကြောင်းကွဲ)


နှာခေါင်း

နှာ (hna, “nose”) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”)


မျက်စိ

The first syllable is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjak ~ s-mik (“eye”) (whence Old Chinese 目 (OC *muɡ, “idem”)) (STEDT).


နား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na (“ear; to hear”) (STEDT).


နမ်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-nam (“to smell”). Cognate with Jingpho nam (“to smell”), Chepang नाम्ह्सा (“to sniff”). Related to နံ (nam, “stink”).


မြင်

Inherited from Old Burmese မြင် (mrang). Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mraŋ (“to look, to see”).


စိမ်း

head

စိမ်း • (cim:)

Cognate with Lolopo zzeir (“raw, uncooked”).


ဝါ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/s-wa (“white; yellow; bright”), which is part of a complex word family with many allofams. More distant cognates from the allofam *hwaŋ (“shine, bright, yellow”) include ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”) and Old Chinese 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”) (STEDT).


ဖြူ

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖ္လူ (phlu), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *plu¹ (“white, silver, money”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *plu (“idem”). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (hpraw, “white”) (STEDT).


နက်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s-nakᴴ (“black”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nak (“black”). Cognate with Nuosu ꆈ (nuo, “black”), Lolopo neix (“black”), Naxi naq, and Tibetan ནག་པོ (nag po, “black”).


နီ

Inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-ni¹ (“red”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ni (“red”). Cognate with Nuosu ꅪ (hni) and Lolopo ni; outside of Lolo-Burmese, compare Old Chinese 怩 (OC *nil, “ashamed”), 恥 (OC *n̥ʰɯʔ, “shame, disgrace”) (STEDT).


နှာ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-na ~ s-naːr (“nose”). Cognate with Tibetan སྣ (sna, “nose”).


မွှေး

Inherited from Old Burmese မွှုယ်း (mhuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mu(j/r) (“smell; fragrant”).


ကြည့်

der

Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s/g-(y/r)a (“to seek, search, look for”)

cog

Lahu [script needed] (tsa¹, “to search”)

to take care of, look after, help, support


ကြည့်

မယုံရင် ငါ့အမေ့ကို မေးကြည့်။ ― ma.yum-rang nga.a.me.kui me:krany.|| ― If [you] don't believe [it], try asking my mother.

an auxiliary denoting trial or attempt to do something


နားထောင်

နား (na:, “ear”) + ထောင် (htaung, “stand, set up”)


စပ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa (“tooth”), whence also သွား (swa:, “tooth”) (STEDT ə-swâ "edge of cutting instrument").


ညို

cog

Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ŋow (“white, green, yellow, blue”)


မျက်မှန်

myakhman (romanization)
လက် (classifier)

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + မှန် (hman, “glass”)

affix

မျက်မှန်တလက်


အရောင်

desc

→ Mon: အရံၚ်

→ Mon: အရံၚ်

→ Pa'o Karen: အရောင်ႏ


ခါး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ka-(n/m/ŋ) (“bitter”). Cognate with Tibetan ཁ་བ (kha ba), Nuosu ꈌ (ke), Lisu ꓘꓪꓽ (kʰwɑ̀), S'gaw Karen ခၣ် (khà), and Chinese 苦 (kǔ), all ‘bitter’.


မျက်တောင်

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + တောင် (taung, “mountain”)

affix

eyelash (hair growing on the edge of an eyelid)


မြ

→ Shan: မျႃႉ (mjâ̰a)

→ Mon: မြ

Possibly from Sanskrit मरकत (marakata, “emerald”) or Pali marakata (“emerald”). Compare Tibetan མར་གད (mar gad, “emerald”).


အနက်

desc

→ Shan: ဢၼၢၵ်ႈ (ʼǎ nāak)

→ Shan: ဢၼၢၵ်ႈ (ʼǎ nāak)


မီးခိုးရောင်

my-noun

မီးခိုးရောင်


မျက်လုံး

မျက်- (myak-, “eye”) + လုံး (lum:, “round”)

prefix

Holonym: မျက်စိ (myakci.)