မေ

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

inh

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


ကျနော်

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


ကျမ

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


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)


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).


ကျွန်မ

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

af

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


ခင်ဗျား

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

contraction of

ခင်ဗျားနာမည်ဘယ်လိုခေါ်သလဲ။
hkangbya:namanybhailuihkausa.lai:||
What is your name?

(men's speech) you (singular, polite, used by males)


ငါ

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


ရှင်

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

ရှင်နာမည်ဘယ်လိုခေါ်သလဲ။
hrangnamanybhailuihkausa.lai:||
What is your name?

(women's speech) you (singular, polite, used by females)

နင်

addressed to someone younger than the speaker


ဒါ

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


အဲဒါ

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


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)


ဝ

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

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


ဘာ

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


နင်

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

inh+

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


မင်း

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


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)


ကျုပ်

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ကျုပ် • (kyup)

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


တို့

Apocopic form of ကျုပ်တို့ (kyuptui.), ငါတို့ (ngatui.). Inherited from Old Burmese အတိဝ် (atiw).


ဘယ်သူ

ဒီဘုန်းကြီးဘယ်သူလဲ။
dibhun:kri:bhaisulai:||
Who is this monk?


ဘယ်သူ့

ဘယ်သူ ဘယ်သူ#Burmese

Induced creaky tone form of ဘယ်သူ (bhaisu).


ခင်ဗျာ့

ခင်ဗျား ခင်ဗျား#Burmese

Induced creaky tone form of ခင်ဗျား (hkangbya:).


ရှင့်

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

Induced creaky tone form of ရှင် (hrang).


ကျွန်တော့်

ကျွန်တော့် • (kywantau.)

ကျွန်တော် ကျွန်တော်#Burmese

Induced creaky tone form of ကျွန်တော် (kywantau).


အနှီဟာ

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


များများ

ငါ့ကို များများ ပေးပါး။
nga.kui mya:mya: pe:pa:||
Give me a lot.

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!”)


ငါ့

(familiar, informal) Induced creaky tone form of ငါ (nga).


တော်

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တော် • (tau)

my-pronoun

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.

inh

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


ချင်း

och-l

彊 (OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ, “two keeping faithfully together”)

(obsolete) (third person pronoun: he, she, it)


ညည်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nja-ŋ/k (“woman”)

(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)


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)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”).


ဦးစင်း

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


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

မောင်ရင် မောင်ရင်#Burmese


ကျွန်တော်မျိုး

/t͡ɕʊ̀ɴdɔ̀mjó/

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

af

(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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nja-ŋ/k (“woman”). Cognate with Burmese ညည်း (nyany:).

(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)


မွန်း

term of endearment used among men to denote familiarity


တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်

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တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် • (taccumtacyauk)

my-pronoun

တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် • (taccumtacyauk)

/təzòʊɴtəjaʊʔ/

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


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).


တစ်စုံတစ်ဦး

/təzòʊɴtəʔú/

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


တစ်ခုခု

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


အများ

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


အတ္တ

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