က

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က

in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)

တောင်ဘက်က

ရန်ကုန်က


နဲ့

မိတ်ဆွေနဲ့ လမ်းလျှောက်ချင်တယ်။
mithcwenai. lam:hlyaukhkyangtai||

2006, Gene Mesher, Burmese for Beginners, p. 116


နောက်

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နောက် • (nauk)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nu(ŋ/k) (“back, behind, after”). Cognate with Mizo hnung (“back, rear”) (STEDT).

inh

ဆိုင်နောက်ဘက်


ဘဲ

ထီး မပါဘဲ ဘယ်တော့မှ မသွားပါဘူး

He never leaves without taking his umbrella.

hti: ma.pabhai: bhaitau.hma. ma.swa:pabhu:

without (not doing or not having done something)


နား

Combining form of အနား (a.na:, “vicinity”).

သင်္ကြန်နား


ကြား

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gla² (“between; to have a space between; interval”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gla (“interval, space between”). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (khà, “in between”) (STEDT); outside of Lolo-Burmese, compare Old Chinese 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns, “section, between, interval (of time and/or space)”). Hill (2019) (p. 251) adduces 加 (OC *kraːl, “to add”), Tibetan བཀྲལ (bkral, “to appoint”), and ཁྲལ (khral, “tax”) as phonetically-sound cognates.


မှာ

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ma-y (“face, cheek, front, ahead, first”) (STEDT: hma "( affix, locative )"). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (hmai, “face”); doublet of မေး (me:, “lower jaw”).


Inherited from Old Burmese နှ်, which was a common abbreviation of နှိုက် (hnuik) in Pagan era stone inscriptions.


တွင်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t/duŋ (“middle, navel”); cognate with the second syllable of Akha [script needed] (caˆ tah˯, “navel”), as well as perhaps Old Chinese 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”) (STEDT).

cog

(rather literary) postpositional marker indicating place or time: in, at, among


ရဲ့

အဖေရဲ့ အိမ်

အဖေ့ရဲ့ အိမ်


ကို

ဘယ်တုန်းက ဒီမြို့ကို ရောက်သလဲ။
bhaitun:ka. di-mrui.kui rauksa.lai:||
When did you arrive in this town?


ရှေ့

Inherited from Old Burmese ရှိယ့် (hriy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rəy (“front”). Cognate with Northern Pumi [script needed] (rə³⁵ be⁵³, “front”) (STEDT: hre¹ "front").


အထဲ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ထဲ (htai:, “within”).


အောက်

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အောက် • (auk)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔok (“below”).Cognate with Tibetan འོག ('og, “below”)


အလျင်

Equated with the "velocity, quick" sense in Etymology 1 by MED. Luce, on the other hand, separates it from the "quick" sense and compares it with Old Chinese 前 (OC *zleːn, “before, front”), albeit with an incorrect transcription as "alhyaṅ" (with an "h").


အား

word indicating dative case, equivalent to the preposition "to"


လို

ဗမာလို

အင်းဂလိပ်လို ရေးပါ။
ang:ga.liplui re:pa||
Please write in English.

(colloquial) postpositional marker indicating medium of communication used: in (a language)

particle suffixed to nouns to denote similarity: like (such as), as (in the manner or role specified)


လောက်

လောက် • (lauk)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luk (“enough, satiated”). Cognate with Old Chinese 裕 (OC *loɡs, “abundant”) (STEDT).

inh+

အရင်လက ဒီလလောက် မပူဘူး။ ― a.rangla.ka. dila.lauk ma.pubhu:|| ― Last month was not as hot as this month.

about (near, approximately, roughly, regarding time, size or quantity)


ဖို့

cog

Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”)

ကလေးဖို့ ဖိနပ်တရန်

အဖို့ အဖို့#Burmese

Alternative form of အဖို့ (a.hpui., “to, for”)


ပေါ်

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ပေါ် • (pau)

အပေါ် အပေါ်#Burmese


ခင်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”); see Old Chinese 岡 (OC *klaːŋ, “ridge, crest of hill; mountain”) for more (STEDT).


အနက်

postpositional marker suffixed to nouns to indicate selection from a set: out of, from, among


ကြိုဆိုပါ၏

(literary) postpositional marker placed at the end of an affirmative sentence (followed by interrogative particle in the case of an interrogative sentence


သည်

(literary) postpositional marker placed at the end of sentence


ပိုင်း

မနက်ပိုင်း

ညနေပိုင်း


တွင်း

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dwa(ː)ŋ (“hole, orifice, cave, pit, well (for water)”), or less likely, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t/duŋ (“middle, navel”). In the former case, cognate with Old Chinese 洞 (OC *doːŋ, *doːŋs, “hole, cave, cavity”), and in the latter, 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”) (STEDT).

och-l

အတွင်း အတွင်း#Burmese

(same as အတွင်း (a.twang:)) postpositional marker suffixed to a noun to indicate temporal or locative case: within


ထဲ

Cognate with Rakhine ထဲ; further cognates outside of Burmish uncertain. Not given etymology by STEDT (ə-thâi "inside, inner part of thing"), while Luce's comparison with Old Chinese 在 (OC *zlɯːʔ, *zlɯːs, “at”) appears phonetically dubious.

postpositional marker suffixed to a noun to indicate location: inside, in


အတွင်း

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + တွင်း (twang:, “in, within; hole”).

af

(postpositional marker suffixed to a noun to indicate temporal or locative case) in, within


အဖို့

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဖို့ (hpui., “in order to”).

အဘိုးကြီးအဖို့ သက်သတ်လွတ်


စေ့

Alternative form of စေ (ce, “marker indicating wish or command”)


ပိမ့်

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ပိမ့် • (pim.)

ပေအံ့ ပေအံ့#Burmese

(poetic) Abbreviation of ပေအံ့ (peam.) (future postpositional marker)


အတွက်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + တွက် (twak, “to calculate, reckon”).

af

postpositional marker suffixed to nouns to indicate purpose: for, for the sake of, so as to, as for


စေ

och-l

使 (OC *srɯʔ, *srɯs, “to order, send someone, use”)

postpositional marker indicating a command or sanction


ပါရစေ

ပါ (pa, “politeness particle, please”) + ရ (ra., “to get; imperative suffix”) + စေ (ce, “to ask, order; command particle”).

af

postpositional marker suffixed to a verb to indicate optative mood: please let me