တ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(t/d)a (“do not”).

ယတသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်

not (prefixed to the verb and used together with the negative final particle ဘၣ် (bà))


သူ

Compare Eastern Pwo သိုင့် (θə̂ɴ), Western Pwo ၥၧၫ့.


သူ

တၢ်သူယသးလၢထံ

With the impersonal subject တၢ် (ta̱): thirsty


ဘူး

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၜုဂ် (bàʊ), Pa'o Karen ဗော့ꩻ.


အ

Verb prefix indicating the third person: he, she, it, they

Noun prefix indicating the third person possessive: his, her, its, their


ညီ

From Proto-Karen *hɲawᴬ (“easy”). Cognate with Western Pwo ယီၫ.


သိ

From Proto-Karen *soᴬ/ᴮ (“sheep”). Cognate with Western Pwo ၥိၪ. Compare Burmese သိုး (sui:).


သိ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo သောဟ် (θʊ́), Western Pwo ၥိၫ, Western Kayah ꤞꤢꤨ (thu).


ဝါ

From Proto-Karen *ʔbwaᴬ (“white”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *ʔwa³ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/s-wa (“white; yellow; bright”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ဗွာ, Western Pwo ဘွၩ, Eastern Pwo အွာ (ʔwà), Western Kayah ꤙꤢꤨ꤭ (bū).


နီ

ယတထံၣ်ဘူအီၤနီတဘျီဘၣ်.

particle used in negative clauses before a classifier phrase to express that there is not a single instance of something


ထူ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဓံင့် (thôɴ), Western Pwo ထီၫ့ (thàuɴ), Western Kayah ꤓꤢꤧ꤭ (htāe).


ဆီ

From Proto-Karen *chjaXᴬ ~ *chjaNᴬ (“chicken”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤏꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (hsyē), Eastern Kayah chā, Eastern Pwo ဆင့် (châɴ), Pa'o Karen ဆျာ.


ခံ

From Proto-Karen *k-hnejᴬ (“two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (“two”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏီ့ (nî), Western Pwo နံၫ, Pa'o Karen နီ.


ခံ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kləj. Cognate with Western Pwo ခဲၫ့, Eastern Pwo ခါင့် (khâiɴ), Manipuri ꯊꯤ (thee).


တိၤ

head

တိၤ • (toh̄)

ksw-noun

တိၤ • (toh̄)


တၢ်အီၣ်

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တၢ်အီၣ် • (ta̱ ʼaẁ)

တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + အီၣ် (ʼaẁ, “to eat”).


နါဒ့

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-na ~ s-naːr (“nose”).


လၢၢ်လါဟ့

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လၢၢ်လါဟ့ • (luẖ lah hay)


တၢ်မျၢ်ပလဲ

တၢ်မျၢ်ပလဲ • (ta̱ mla̱ pa leh)


အံသၣ်

အံသၣ် • (ʼee thà)

From Proto-Karen *saᴮ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt, salty, salted”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤤ꤬ꤞꤢꤧ꤬ (ìthàe), ꤢꤩ꤬ꤞꤢꤧ꤬ (èthàe).


သုးဖိ

From သုး (thü, “army”) + ဖိ (hpoh, “child”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သုဂ်ဖေါဟ် (θàʊ phʊ́).

cog

Eastern Pwo သုဂ်ဖေါဟ် (θàʊ phʊ́)


ဝၤ

From Proto-Karen *ɡwaᴬ (“husband”) (Luangthongkum, 2019). Cognate with Western Pwo ဝၩ, Pa'o Karen ဝါ, Western Kayah ꤠꤢꤧ꤬ (vàe).


ဘှ့ၣ်

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ဘှ့ၣ် • (bhgaỳ)


ဖိခွါ

ဖိ (hpoh, “child”) + ခွါ (khwah, “male”). Compare Western Pwo ဖိၪခွၫ.


ထီပး

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ထီပး • (hṭaw pä)


မါ

From Proto-Karen *hmaᴬ (“wife”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *ma⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မာ့ (mâ), Western Pwo မၫ, Pa'o Karen မာ.


ဖိမုၣ်

ဖိမုၣ် • (hpoh mù)

ဖိ (hpoh, “child”) + မုၣ် (mù, “female”). Compare Western Pwo ဖိၪမုၪ.


တၢ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognates include Eastern Pwo လိုင့် (lə̂ɴ).


နၢ်

From Proto-Karen *naᴮ (“ear”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na (“ear; to hear, to listen”). Cognate with Western Pwo နါ, Eastern Pwo ဏာႋ (nā), Pa'o Karen နား.


စဲး

From Burmese စက် (cak). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤡꤢꤧ (cae), Shan ၸၢၵ်ႈ (tsāak).


ဃု

From Proto-Karen *khrowᴬ (“six”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k-ruk (“six”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၰူ့ (xɯ̂), Western Pwo ဎူၫ, Pa'o Karen သူ.


သၢ

From Proto-Karen *səmᴬ (“three”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *səm⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sum (“three”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen သွံ, Western Pwo ၥၧၫ့, Eastern Pwo သိုင့် (θə̂ɴ), Western Kayah ꤞꤛꤣ꤭ (thūeoe), Burmese သုံး (sum:).


မုၢ်

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မုၢ် • (mu̱)

From Proto-Karen *mɨᴮ (“sun”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *my¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969). Cognate with Pa'o Karen မွူး.


ဃိး

From Proto-Karen *kh/grɔtᴰ (“eight”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဎိၭ, Pa'o Karen သွစ်ꩻ.


အီၣ်

အီၣ် • (ʼaẁ)

From Proto-Karen *Ɂamᴮ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo အင်း (ʔáɴ), Western Pwo အၪ့, Pa'o Karen အံႏ.

Used after verbs indicating preparation of food.

Used after verbs indicating methods for catching or collecting food.

Used to express that the action denoted by the preceding verb is done for a living.


တၢ်

Compare Western Pwo ဆၧ, Eastern Pwo ဆ်ု (chə), Pa'o Karen ထာꩻ, Western Kayah ꤒꤟꤢꤧ꤬ (tà̤e).

တၢ်မံ

Used as a pre-verbal nominalizer to indicate an action.

တၢ်အီၣ်

Used as a pre-verbal nominalizer to indicate the object of an action.

တၢ်စူၤ

တၢ်ကိၢ်
ta̱koẖ
It is hot..

ယသးဝံၣ်တၢ်မုာ်


လွံၢ်

လွံၢ် • (lwee̱)

From Proto-Karen *lwiᴬ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj. Cognate with Western Pwo လံ, Western Kayah ꤜꤝꤟꤤ꤭ (lwī̤). Compare Pa'o Karen လစ်ꩻ.


လွံၢ်

လွံၢ် • (lwee̱)

From Proto-Karen *lwiᴮ (“dove”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo လုဲ့ (lwî).


ထိး

ထိး • (hṭoḧ)

From Proto-Karen *thɔʔᴰ (“pig”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ထော့ꩻ, Eastern Pwo ထောဝ် (thʊ̀), Western Pwo ထိၭ, Western Kayah ꤓꤛꤢ (htya).


ထိး

ထိး • (hṭoḧ)


ယဲၢ်

ယဲၢ် • (yeẖ)

From Proto-Karen *ŋjap/tᴰ (“five”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa (“five”). Cognate with Western Pwo ယဲ, Eastern Pwo ယာဲ (jɛ̄), Pa'o Karen ငတ်ꩻ, Western Kayah ꤑꤟꤢ꤭ (nyā̤).


ခွံ

From Proto-Karen *khwiᴬ (“nine”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw (“nine”).


လီၤ

လီၤ • (law̄)

From Proto-Karen *laŋᴬ (“to descend”). Cognate with Western Pwo လၩ့, Eastern Pwo လင် (làɴ).

pre-verbal marker used to express that the subject causes the reaction denoted by the following verb: cause to, invite to, -able

post-verbal directional marker (~လီၤ): down

post-verbal marker used in reflexive clauses


လီၤ

လီၤ • (law̄)

ထီၣ်

antonym(s) of “directional marker, down”


လီၤ

လီၤ • (law̄)

Final particle used to end declarative sentences.


ဆံ

From Proto-Karen *chejᴬ (“ten”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen [Term?], Western Kayah ꤏꤛꤢꤩ (hsye), Burmese ဆယ် (hcai).


မိၢ်

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မိၢ် • (moẖ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?] (“mother”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen မွိုး, Western Pwo မိ.


မိၢ်

မိၢ် • (moẖ)

ksw-adj

မိၢ် • (moẖ)


ဘု

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၜူး (bɯ́), Pa'o Karen ဗူ. Possibly from Austroasiatic (Luce 1985), compare Danau ဗာ့ (báʔ).


ထံ

From Proto-Karen *thejᴬ (“water”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *thi⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water, fluid, wet, to soak”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ထီ, Eastern Pwo ထီ့ (thî), Western Pwo ထံၫ, Western Kayah ꤓꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (htyē).


ဘီ

a spear; a long pole with a sharp point on one end of it used as a weapon.


ဘီ

From Proto-Karen *ʔbaŋᴬ (“yellow”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“shine; bright; yellow”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဘၩ့, Eastern Pwo ၜင် (bàɴ), Western Kayah ꤙꤛꤢ꤭ (byā).


နွံ

From Proto-Karen *ʔnwetᴰ ~ *ʔnweᴬ (“seven”) (Luangthongkum, 2019), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen နွိတ်ꩻ.


ကျီၢ်

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ကျီၢ် • (klaw̱)


ဟံၣ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house; pit; womb”). Cognate with Western Pwo ယံၪ့ or ဂံၪ့, Western Kayah ꤟꤤ꤬ (hì).


လံာ်

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လံာ် • (leẹ)


လံာ်

လံာ် • (leẹ)

Borrowed from Mon လိက်. Cognate with Western Pwo လံၬ, Eastern Pwo လိက် (lái), Western Kayah ꤜꤤ꤬ (lì).


လံာ်

လံာ် • (leẹ)

to wear (around the neck), wear (a necklace)


ယူၢ်

ယူၢ် • (yoo̱)


လီၢ်

လီၢ် • (law̱)


လီၢ်

လီၢ် • (law̱)


ဒု

From Proto-Karen *ʔdəᴬ (“classifier for four-legged animals”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဒုၩ, Eastern Pwo ဍူ (dɯ̀).


စီၤ

head

စီၤ • (saw̄)


ပှၤ

ပှၤ • (phgā)


ခွါ

male, masculine (applied to human beings)


လဲၤ

လဲၤ • (leh̄)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo လေဝ် (lì̱), Western Pwo လ့ၩ, Pa'o Karen လွေꩻ.


ကသ့ၣ်မိၢ်

ကသ့ၣ်မိၢ် • (ka thaỳ moẖ)

ကသ့ၣ် (ka thaỳ, “horse”) + မိၢ် (moẖ, “female”).


ဖိသၣ်ပိာ်မုၣ်

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ဖိသၣ်ပိာ်မုၣ် • (hpoh thà poḥ mù)

ဖိသၣ် (hpoh thà, “child”) + ပိာ်မုၣ် (poḥ mù, “woman”).


ဖိသၣ်ပိာ်ခွါ

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ဖိသၣ်ပိာ်ခွါ • (hpoh thà poḥ khwah)

ဖိသၣ် (hpoh thà, “child”) + ပိာ်ခွါ (poḥ khwah, “man”).


ကသ့ၣ်ဖါ

ကသ့ၣ် (ka thaỳ, “horse”) + ဖါ (hpah, “male”).


ပိာ်မုၣ်

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ပိာ်မုၣ် • (poḥ mù)


ပိာ်မုၣ်

ပိာ်မုၣ် • (poḥ mù)

female, feminine (applied to human beings)


ပိာ်ခွါ

ပိာ်ခွါ • (poḥ khwah)


ပိာ်ခွါ

ပိာ်ခွါ • (poḥ khwah)


နီၢ်

နီၢ် • (naw̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏင့် (nâɴ), Pa'o Karen နမ်း.


နီၢ်

နီၢ် • (naw̱)

From Shan ၼၢင်း (náang). Ultimately from 娘 (OC *naŋ, “young woman”).


ကသ့ၣ်

ကသ့ၣ် • (ka thaỳ)

From Proto-Karen *k-sreᵀ (“horse”). Cognate with Western Pwo ကၥ့ၪ or ၥ့ၪ, Western Kayah ꤒꤢ꤬ꤞꤤ (tàthi), Pa'o Karen သေ (se). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔseh (“horse”) and Danau ထေ (tʰè).


မံ

From Proto-Karen *hmejᴬ (“lie down, sleep”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-mwəj (“to sleep; to dream”). Cognate with Western Pwo မံၫ, Eastern Pwo မီ့ (mî), Western Kayah ꤥ꤬ꤗꤛꤢꤩ (òmye).


မံ

From Proto-Karen *ʔminᴬ (“ripe, cooked”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မိင့် (mêiɴ).


ဒ့ပူၤ

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ဒ့ပူၤ • (day poō)


ဒ့ပျံၤ

ဒ့ပျံၤ • (day pleē)


ဒ့

a navel, an umbilicus; the round mark on a person's stomach where the umbilical cord was attached when they were a baby.


ခါ

Generic classifier; classifier for abstract nouns.


ၡ

(ၡ) is the ninth of the 26 letters of the S'gaw Karen alphabet.


ကူ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-gywa(n/t) (“wear, put on, clothe”).

inh

to put on, to clothe (lower part of body)


သံ

From Proto-Karen *sejᴬ (“dead, to die”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *si⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen သီ, Western Pwo ၥံၫ, Eastern Pwo သီ့ (θî), Western Kayah ꤞꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (thyē).


အဲၣ်

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အဲၣ် • (ʼeh̀)


ဘၣ်

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၜး (bá), Western Pwo ဘၪ, Pa'o Karen ဗာႏ.

come into contact with, encounter, face, contract (a disease)

post-clausal modal verb: can, be able to


ဘၣ်

ယတသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်

Sentence-final negative particle used together with the negative prefix တ (ta), which precedes the verb.


ဖီ

Cognate with Western Pwo ဖီၫ, Eastern Pwo ဖဝ့် (phɔ̂), Western Kayah ꤖꤥ꤭ (hpō).


ဖီ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖံင့် (phôɴ), Western Pwo ဖီၫ့.


မဲ

a tooth; one of the small white parts in your mouth used for biting and chewing.


ဆွဲၣ်

ဆွဲၣ် • (hsweh̀)

From Proto-Karen *chwɛᴮ (“crab”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(j)aːj (“crab”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤏꤝꤥ꤬ (hswò), Western Pwo ဆွ့ၪ.


ပနၢ်

ပနၢ် • (pa na̱)

From Proto-Karen *p/b-naᴮ (“buffalo”). Cognate with Western Pwo ပနါ, Eastern Pwo ပၞာႋ (pnā), Pa'o Karen ပနား. Compare Danau ပနာအ်, မနာအ် (pənàʔ, mənàʔ).


ထိၣ်

ထိၣ် • (hṭoh̀)

From Proto-Karen *thoᴮ (“bird”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *daw (“bird”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤓꤢꤨ꤬ (htù), Western Pwo ထိၪ.


ထွံၣ်

From Proto-Karen *thwiᴮ (“dog”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *thwi² (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n (“dog”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ထွီႏ, Western Pwo ထွံၪ, Western Kayah ꤓꤝꤤ꤬ (htwì), Manipuri ꯍꯨꯏ (hooʼi).


ကနဲ

From Proto-Karen *k-hneᴬ (“bee (Apis dorsata)”).


ကျံ

From Proto-Karen *kliᴬ ~ *kliˀᴰ (“flea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lij ~ *s-ləj (“flea”).


ဒ့ၣ်

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ဒ့ၣ် • (daỳ)

From Proto-Karen *ˀdeᴮ (“frog”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဒ့ၪ, Western Kayah ꤘꤤ꤬ (dì), Pa'o Karen ဒေႏ.


ဒွဲၣ်

ဒွဲၣ် • (dweh̀)

From Proto-Karen *ˀdwɛᴮ (“grasshopper”).


လၢၣ်

လၢၣ် • (luh̀)


ကံၣ်

ကံၣ် • (keè)


သလံၤ

From Proto-Karen *k/s-lejᴬ (“water leech”).


တလံၤ

တလံၤ • (ta leē)


သမၣ်

သမၣ် • (tha mà)

From Proto-Karen *s-hmaᴮ (“crocodile”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သၟး.


အ့ၣ်

အ့ၣ် • (ʼaỳ)

From Proto-Karen *ʔeᴮ (“dung; excrement”). Compare with Mon အိက်.


မ့ၣ်

မ့ၣ် • (maỳ)

From Proto-Karen *hmeᴮ (“fire”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *me² (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej (“fire”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen မေႏ, Western Pwo မ့ၪ, Eastern Pwo မှ်ေ (mí̱), Western Kayah ꤗꤤ꤬ (mì).


ဝၣ်

From Proto-Karen *hwaᴮ (“bamboo”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g/s-pʷa (“bamboo”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen [Term?], Western Kayah ꤠꤟꤢꤧ꤬ (và̤e), Burmese ဝါး (wa:), Eastern Pwo ဝး (wá).


ခီၣ်

ခီၣ် • (khaẁ)

From Proto-Karen *khaŋᴮ (“leg”). (Luangthongkum, 2019) Cognate with Pa'o Karen ခင်, Western Pwo ခၪ့.


ခွံၣ်

ခွံၣ် • (khweè)

From Proto-Karen *kwiᴮ (“chameleon; lizard”).


ဖျၢ

From Proto-Karen *phrɨNᴬ (“bee; wasp; hornet”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤕꤜꤢꤦ꤭ (plūe, “bee”).


ဃၢ်

From Proto-Karen *ɡraᴮ (“louse; insect”).


ယုၢ်

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ယုၢ် • (yu̱)

From Proto-Karen *jowᴮ (“mouse; rat”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-jəw-n ~ bwəj (“rat; rabbit; hare”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယူႋ (jɯ̄), Western Pwo ယူ, Pa'o Karen ယူး. Compare Western Kayah ꤐꤟꤌꤣ (zṳeoe).


ပှာ်

head

ပှာ် • (phgạ)

a net; a circular net which is cast using a throwing action used to catch fish.

lead; a soft heavy metal used in making batteries.


လါ

From Proto-Karen *ʔlaᴬ (“moon, month”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *la⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/ɡ-la (“moon; month”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen လာ, Western Pwo လၩ, Eastern Pwo လာ (là), Western Kayah ꤜꤢꤧ꤭ (lāe), Burmese လ (la.).


ဘှိး

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ဘှိး • (bhgoḧ)


နံၣ်

နံၣ် • (neè)

From Proto-Karen *hneŋᴮ (“year”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *nin² (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ː)ŋ ~ s-nik. Cognate with Pa'o Karen နေင်ႏ, Western Pwo နံၪ့, Eastern Pwo ဏိင်း (néiɴ). Compare Western Kayah ꤔꤢ꤬ (nà).


နံၣ်

နံၣ် • (neè)


ထီၣ်

ထီၣ် • (hṭaẁ)

From Proto-Karen *thaŋᴮ (“to ascend”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“to rise; to raise”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထင်း (tháɴ), Pa'o Karen ထင်ႏ.


ထီၣ်

head

ထီၣ် • (hṭaẁ)


သူး

သူး • (thoö)

From Proto-Karen *s-waˀᴰ (“land leech”).


ဘီၣ်

ဘီၣ် • (baẁ)

From Proto-Karen *ˀbaŋᴮ (“bamboo shoot”), from Mon တ္ၜၚ်.


ဘီၣ်

ဘီၣ် • (baẁ)


ညၣ်

From Proto-Karen *ˀɲ/hɲaᴮ (“flesh; meat”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယး (já), Pa'o Karen ယာႏ.


သူၣ်

သူၣ် • (thoò)

From Proto-Karen *swɨXᴮ ~ *swɨNᴮ (“head louse”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s(j)ar (“head louse”).


သူၣ်

head

သူၣ် • (thoò)

From Proto-Karen *swɨnᴮ (“liver”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sin (“liver; bitter; bile”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သုင်း (θə́ɯɴ), Western Kayah ꤞꤣ꤭ (thōe), Pa'o Karen သွိုန်ႏ.


သူၣ်

head

သူၣ် • (thoò)


ကွဲ

From Proto-Karen *kwatᴰ (“bee (Apis cerana)”).


ဃံ

From Proto-Karen *khrwitᴰ (“bone”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *xwi⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ဆွတ်, Western Pwo ဎွံၪ, Western Kayah ꤊꤚꤝꤤ (krwi).


ဒံၣ်

head

ဒံၣ် • (deè)

From Proto-Karen *ʔdejᴮ (“egg”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *di² (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əj. Cognate with Pa'o Karen ဒီႏ, Eastern Pwo ဍီး (dí).


ကိာ်

ကိာ် • (koḥ)

neck; the part of the body connecting the head to the shoulders.


စု

Cognate with Pa'o Karen စူ, Eastern Pwo စူး (cɯ́), Western Pwo စူၪ.

a hand; the part of the body below the wrist to which your fingers are attached.


ပျ့ၤ

ပျ့ၤ • (plaȳ)

From Proto-Karen *bleᴬ (“tongue”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *phle³ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej (“tongue”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ဖြေ.


ဂုၢ်

head

ဂုၢ် • (ghu̱)

From Proto-Karen *rowᴮ (“snake”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *ɣy¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen ရူး, Western Pwo ဂူ, Western Kayah ꤚꤟꤢꤨ (rṳ).


လၢၢ်

လၢၢ် • (luẖ)

From Proto-Karen *loŋᴮ (“stone, rock”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *loŋ¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo လုံႋ (lōʊɴ), Pa'o Karen လုံး, Western Kayah ꤜꤟꤢꤪ (lo̤a), Eastern Kayah lɔ̀.


မဲာ်

မဲာ် • (meḥ)

From Proto-Karen *mɛʔᴰ (“eye, face”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *mɛʔ¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjak ~ s-mik (“eye”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen မဲ့, Western Pwo မ့ၬ, Eastern Pwo မေံ (mèQ). Compare Western Kayah ꤗꤢꤧ꤬ꤞꤢꤧ꤬ (màethàe).


ဆံၣ်

head

ဆံၣ် • (hseè)

From Proto-Karen *chjaNᴮ (“sour”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kjuːr ~ *s-kjwaːr (“sour; to be acid”). Cognate with Western Kayah ꤏꤛꤢꤩ꤬ (hsyè).


ဆံၣ်

head

ဆံၣ် • (hseè)


စီးကပ့ၤ

စီးကပ့ၤ • (saẅ ka paȳ)


စီၤပၤ

စီၤပၤ • (saw̄ pā)


သိမိၢ်

သိမိၢ် • (thoh moẖ)

သိ (thoh, “sheep”) + မိၢ် (moẖ, “female”).


တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ်

head

တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ် • (ta̱ doḧ ta̱ là)


ကုၢ်

ကုၢ် • (ku̱)


ကုၢ်

ကုၢ် • (ku̱)


ကလ့ၢ်

ကလ့ၢ် • (ka lay̱)

From Proto-Karen *k-leᴮ (“kidney”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɡ-la (“spleen; kidney”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo လေဝ်ႋ (lī̱).


ကလံၤ

head

ကလံၤ • (ka leē)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ləj (“wind”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen တလီꩻ, Western Pwo လံၩ.


သ့ၣ်လၣ်

သ့ၣ်လၣ် • (thaỳ là)

သ့ၣ် (thaỳ, “tree”) + လၣ် (là, “leaf”). Compare Eastern Pwo သိင်းလး (θéiɴ lá), Western Pwo ၥံၪ့လၪ, Western Kayah ꤞꤢꤪ꤬ꤜꤢꤧ꤬ (thòalàe).


သ့ၣ်

သ့ၣ် • (thaỳ)

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *si(ŋ/k) (“wood, firewood, tree”). Compare Western Pwo ၥံၪ့, Eastern Pwo သိင်း (θéiɴ), Western Kayah ꤞꤢꤪ꤬ (thòa).


လၣ်

From Proto-Karen *hlaᴮ (“leaf”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf; tea; flat thing”). Cognate with Western Pwo လၪ, Western Kayah ꤜꤢꤧ꤬ (làe).


ခၣ်

From Proto-Karen *kaᴮ (“chin; jaw”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခး (khá), Western Pwo ခၪ, Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤧ꤬ (hkàe), Pa'o Karen ကာႏ.

a chin; the part of the face that is under the mouth.

(lower) jaw; the bone around the mouth that holds the teeth.


ခၣ်

From Proto-Karen *khaᴮ (“bitter”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ka-(n/m/ŋ) (“bitter; bile; liver”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခး (khá), Western Pwo ခၪ, Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤧ꤬ (hkàe).


သီ

From Proto-Karen *saNᴬ (“new”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သင့် (θâɴ).


သပၢၤ

From Proto-Karen *bəŋᴬ (“pot”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဖျိၪ, Western Kayah ꤕꤟꤢꤪ꤬ (pò̤a).


ပၢၤ

head

ပၢၤ • (puh̄)


ဃ့ၢ်

ဃ့ၢ် • (xay̱)


ထံတမၢၢ်

ထံတမၢၢ် • (hṭee ta muẖ)


ဂ့ၤ

ဂ့ၤ • (ghaȳ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၯေဝ် (ɣì̱).


နၤ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”). Compare Pa'o Karen နာꩻ.


ထး

From Proto-Karen *thaɁᴰ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hljak (“iron, iron instrument”). Cognate with Western Pwo ထၭ, Eastern Pwo ထာ (thà). Compare Western Kayah ꤒꤟꤢꤪꤓꤢꤧ (to̤ahtae).


နံၤ

From Proto-Karen *nejᴬ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun; day”). Cognate with Western Pwo နံၩ, Pa'o Karen နီꩻ (ni). Compare Western Kayah ꤗꤟꤢꤪꤑꤢꤩ꤭ (mo̤anyē).


ဘျ့

From Proto-Karen *pleᴬ. Compare Yamphu फेलेले (phelele, “slippery”).


တနၢ်

head

တနၢ် • (ta na̱)


လ့ၣ်

လ့ၣ် • (laỳ)

From Proto-Karen *hlajᴮ (“to lick”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s/g-ljak (“to lick; tongue”).


တၢၢ်

head

တၢၢ် • (tuẖ)

From Proto-Karen *dəŋᴮ (“ant”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထုင်ႋ (thə̄ɯɴ).


ခူၣ်

ခူၣ် • (khoò)

From Proto-Karen *khuᴮ (“to dig”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *khun² (“idem”) (Burling, 1969). Compare Eastern Pwo ခုင်း (khə́ɯɴ), Pa'o Karen ခူး.


စ့

Cognate with Eastern Pwo စေဝ် (cì̱), Western Pwo စ့ၩ.


သွံၣ်

သွံၣ် • (thweè)

ksw-noun

သွံၣ် • (thweè)

From Proto-Karen *swiᴮ (“blood”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t (“blood”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သုဲး (θwí), Western Pwo ၥွံၪ, Western Kayah ꤞꤝꤤ꤬ (thwì).


မဲၢ်

head

မဲၢ် • (meẖ)

ksw-noun

မဲၢ် • (meẖ)

From Proto-Karen *meᴮ (“tail”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”). Compare Western Kayah ꤋꤢ꤭ꤗꤟꤤ (hkāmi̤), Eastern Pwo မေဝ်ႋ (mī̱), Pa'o Karen မေး, Manipuri ꯃꯩ (mei).


ကယၤ

head

ကယၤ • (ka yā)

From Proto-Karen *g-rjaᴬ (“hundred”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-r-gja (“hundred”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo က်ုယာ (kə jà), Pa'o Karen ရျာꩻ (rya).


လံ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Compare Pa'o Karen လဲဉ်း.

နက့ၤတုၤလၢဟံၣ်လံဧါ.

Used at the end of a sentence to indicate the beginning of a new situation.


တၢ်အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံ

တၢ်အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံ • (ta̱ ʼeh̀ ta̱ kwee)

ksw-noun

တၢ်အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံ • (ta̱ ʼeh̀ ta̱ kwee)


တၢ်အိၣ်မူ

head

တၢ်အိၣ်မူ • (ta̱ ʼoh̀ moo)

ksw-noun

တၢ်အိၣ်မူ • (ta̱ ʼoh̀ moo)


အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံတၢ်

head

အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံတၢ် • (ʼeh̀ ta̱ kwee ta̱)


တၢ်အဲၣ်

တၢ်အဲၣ် • (ta̱ ʼeh̀)

ksw-noun

တၢ်အဲၣ် • (ta̱ ʼeh̀)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + အဲၣ် (ʼeh̀, “love”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆ်ုအဲ (chə ʔɛ́).


ဖိ

Cognate with Western Pwo ဖိၪ, Eastern Pwo ဖောဟ် (phʊ́).


သ့ၣ်ညါ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjej-s (“to know”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သှ်ေယာ့ (θí̱ jâ), Western Pwo ၥ့ၪယၫ, Western Kayah ꤞꤢꤧꤑꤢꤩ꤭ (thaenyē).


ချံး

head

ချံး • (khleë)

From Proto-Karen *kliʔᴰ (“turtle; tortoise”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lip (“turtle; tortoise”). Cognate with Western Pwo ချံၭ, Western Kayah ꤒꤢ꤬ꤊꤜꤤ (tàkli), Pa'o Karen ကြေ့ꩻ.


ကဆီ

From Proto-Karen *k-chaŋᴬ (“elephant”). Cognate with Western Pwo ကဆၫ့, Eastern Pwo က်ုဆင့် (kə châɴ), Western Kayah ꤒꤢ꤬ꤏꤛꤢ꤭ (tàhsyā). Compare Danau ကစဲဉ် (kəsɛ̀ɴ).


ခိၣ်ဆါ

ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + ဆါ (hsah, “pain”).


ခိၣ်

head

ခိၣ် • (khoh̀)

From Proto-Karen *khuᴮ (“head”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ် (khʊ́).

a head; the part of the body containing the brain, eyes and mouth.


ခိၣ်

ခိၣ် • (khoh̀)


ဆါ

From Proto-Karen *chaᴬ (“ill, painful, sick”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆာ့ (châ).


ဆါ

From Proto-Karen *caᴬ (“sell”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဆၫ (shà), Pa'o Karen စာ (cà).


စီၤကပ့ၤ

head

စီၤကပ့ၤ • (saw̄ ka paȳ)


ကွဲၢ်မိၢ်ဘီ

ကွဲၢ်မိၢ်ဘီ • (kweẖ moẖ baw)

/kwɛ̀lɛ̀bɔ́/


ကွဲၢ်လဲၢ်ဘီ

ကွဲၢ်လဲၢ်ဘီ • (kweẖ leẖ baw)


စုပှီၢ်လီၤအလီၢ်

စုပှီၢ်လီၤအလီၢ် • (su phgaw̱ law̄ ʼa law̱)


နီၣ်ဆီၣ်ခံ

နီၣ်ဆီၣ်ခံ • (naẁ hsaẁ khee)


ခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်

ခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ် • (khaẁ hpyoo hṭuh̀)


ကလုၢ်ဒၢ

ကလုၢ်ဒၢ • (ka lu̱ duh)


ကီၢ်စံၣ်

ကီၢ်စံၣ် • (kaw̱ seè)

China (a country in Asia; capital: Beijing)


အ့ၡၢၣ်

အ့ၡၢၣ် • (ʼay shuh̀)


ကီၢ်ပယီၤ

ကီၢ်ပယီၤ • (kaw̱ pa yaw̄)


ခံပူၤ

From ခံ (khee, “rear, buttocks”) + ပူၤ (poō, “hole”). The first component is from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kləj. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခင့်ဖိုင် (khâɴ phə̀ɴ).

compound

(anatomy) anus; the opening on your bottom where faeces comes out when you go to the toilet.


ဝ့ၤ

From Proto-Karen *s-waˀᴰ (“land leech”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-r-pʷat.


လါကပီၤ

လါ (lah, “moon”) + ကပီၤ (ka paw̄, “light”).


ကျီး

head

ကျီး • (klaẅ)

Compare Mon ကၠံ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ကၠေါဝ် (klʊ̀).


ကျီး

ကျီး • (klaẅ)


ပျၢ်

ပျၢ် • (pla̱)

From Proto-Karen *blaᴮ (“arrow”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖၠာႋ (phlā), Burmese မြား (mra:), Newar बला (balā).

an arrow; a pointed stick that is fired from a bow.


ပျၢ်

ပျၢ် • (pla̱)

to forgive; to stop being angry with someone for something they have done wrong.


တၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢ

တၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢ • (ta̱ puẖ hsuh)


ကီၢ်ပဒိၣ်

ကီၢ်ပဒိၣ် • (kaw̱ pa doh̀)


သုးမီၤစိရိၤ

သုးမီၤစိရိၤ • (thü maw̄ soh roh̄)


သုးပၢတၢ်ကရူၢ်

သုးပၢတၢ်ကရူၢ် • (thü puh ta̱ ka roo̱)


တၢ်ဟံးဆူၣ်ကီၢ်တၢ်စိကမီၤ

တၢ်ဟံးဆူၣ်ကီၢ်တၢ်စိကမီၤ • (ta̱ heë hsoò kaw̱ ta̱ soh ka maw̄)

ta̱ heë hsoò kaw̱ ta̱ soh ka maw̄ (romanization)

en-တၢ်ဟံးဆူၣ်ကီၢ်တၢ်စိကမီၤ-ksw-noun-d1tw~dOZ


ဒံၣ်မိၣ်ခြ့ၣ်စံၣ်

ဒံၣ်မိၣ်ခြ့ၣ်စံၣ် • (deè moh̀ khraỳ seè)


ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိ

ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖိ • (phgā haẁ khoh̀ hpoh)


ဆိ

Used as a post-verbal modifier: first, before, in advance


သီမုၢ်

သီမုၢ် • (thaw mu̱)


နီၣ်ကီၤစဲၣ်

နီၣ်ကီၤစဲၣ် • (naẁ kaw̄ seh̀)


အဂီၤ

အဂီၤ • (ʼa ghaw̄)


အဝါဃး

အဝါဃး • (ʼa wah xä)


အဂီၤလုး

အဂီၤလုး • (ʼa ghaw̄ lü)


ဂီၤလုးစၢ်

ဂီၤလုးစၢ် • (ghaw̄ lü sa̱)


အလွဲၢ်ဃး

အလွဲၢ်ဃး • (ʼa lweẖ xä)


စူၢ်ဝံၣ်သၣ်လွဲၢ်

စူၢ်ဝံၣ်သၣ်လွဲၢ် • (soo̱ weè thà lweẖ)


ဂီၤစၢ်

ဂီၤစၢ် • (ghaw̄ sa̱)


အလါအဲး

အလါအဲး • (ʼa lah ʼeḧ)


ကဲ

post-clausal auxiliary: be able to (have the physical or mental strength to do something)


သရၣ်မုၣ်သိၣ်လိတၢ်

သရၣ်မုၣ်သိၣ်လိတၢ် • (tha rà mù thoh̀ loh ta̱)

/θa̰jàmùθòlótà/


သရၣ်သိၣ်လိတၢ်

သရၣ်သိၣ်လိတၢ် • (tha rà thoh̀ loh ta̱)

/θa̰jàθòlótà/


ကသံၣ်သရၣ်

ကသံၣ်သရၣ် • (ka theè tha rà)

/ka̰θìθa̰jà/


ပှၤဖိတၢ်အခိၣ်

ပှၤဖိတၢ်အခိၣ် • (phgā hpoh ta̱ ʼa khoh̀)

/pʰápʰɔ̀tàʔəkʰò/


ပှၤမၤပံာ်မ့ၣ်

ပှၤမၤပံာ်မ့ၣ် • (phgā mā peẹ maỳ)


ဖျၢၣ်ထူ

ဖျၢၣ်ထူ • (hpluh̀ hṭoo)

/pʰa̰lɛ̀tʰú/


မးအိသၣ်

မးအိသၣ် • (mä ʼoh thà)


ၡူ

လၢတၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှ့ၤတၢ်မၤန့ၣ် ပမ့ၢ်တကူၣ်သ့ကူၣ်ဘၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂံၢ်တၢ်ဒွးဘၣ်ဒီး ပကၡူလီၤႉ

We will lose in doing trading if we are not good at calculation.

luh ta̱ hsah ta̱ phgaȳ ta̱ mā naỳ pa may̱ ta koò thay koò bà luh ta̱ ghee̱ ta̱ dwä bà daẅ pa ka shoo law̄ .


ပတ့ၤချဲး

ပတ့ၤချဲး • (pa taȳ khleḧ)


kahkui.

ရမျာင်

( Ka Kho) is the first of the 38 Karia alphabets used in the Myaing Gyi Ngu area of Kayin State.


kahkui.

ရမျာင်


ဆီဒံၣ်

ဆီဒံၣ် • (hsaw deè)

ဆီ (hsaw, “chicken”) + ဒံၣ် (deè, “egg”).


ဒံၣ်သၣ်

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ဒံၣ်သၣ် • (deè thà)


ဒံၣ်ချံ

ဒံၣ်ချံ • (deè khlee)


ဂီၤလၢအဂ့ၤ

ဂီၤလၢအဂ့ၤ • (ghaw̄ luh ʼa ghaȳ)

/wɔ̀lɛ́ʔa̰ɡè/


တံၤသကိး

တံၤသကိး • (teē tha koḧ)


အိၣ်ဆူၣ်

အိၣ်ဆူၣ် • (ʼoh̀ hsoò)

သုအိၣ်ဆူၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါႉ


ထံၣ်လိာ်သး

ထံၣ်လိာ်သး • (hṭeè loḥ thä)

တထံၣ်ဘၣ်လိာ်သးယံာ်လံႉ


နီၣ်ထီၣ်

နီၣ်ထီၣ် • (naẁ hṭaẁ)

နီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘၣ်ယဲသုႉ


အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့

အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့ • (ʼoh̀ hsoò ʼoh̀ khlay)

/ʔòsʰṵʔòkʰa̰lé/


တၢ်ဘျုးလီၤ

တၢ်ဘျုးလီၤ • (ta̱ blü law̄)

ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မးႉ

နဘျုးအိၣ်လၢယဖီခိၣ်အါးမးလီၤႉ

na blü ʼoh̀ luh ya hpaw khoh̀ ʼaḧ mä law̄ .

နဘၣ်စံးဘျုးအီၤႉ

ပဘၣ်စံးဘျုးအီၤႉ


မိၢ်ပၢ်

မိၢ်ပၢ် • (moẖ pa̱)

မိၢ်ပၢ်အဘျုးန့ၣ်ဒိၣ်ကတၢၢ်လီၤႉ

သးပ့ၤနီၣ်မိၢ်ပၢ်အဘျုးတဂ့ၤႉ

Do not forget the kindness of your parents.


ပနီကျဲသၣ်

/pa̰nɔ́ka̰lɛ́θà/

From ပနီကျဲ (pa naw kleh, “lime”) + သၣ် (thà, “fruit”).


တၤသၣ်ဃ့ၣ်

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တၤသၣ်ဃ့ၣ် • (tā thà xaỳ)


တၢ်သူတၢ်သၣ်အထံ

တၢ်သူတၢ်သၣ်အထံ • (ta̱ thoo ta̱ thà ʼa hṭee)

/tàθútàθàʔa̰tʰí/


တၢ်အထံ

တၢ်အထံ • (ta̱ ʼa hṭee)

တၢ်သူတၢ်သၣ်အထံ

တၢ်သူတၢ်သၣ်အထံ#S'gaw_Karen

Alternative form of တၢ်သူတၢ်သၣ်အထံ (ta̱ thoo ta̱ thà ʼa hṭee)


အံသၣ်ဆၢ

အံသၣ်ဆၢ • (ʼee thà hsuh)


အၣ်လူဆဲးသိ

အၣ်လူဆဲးသိ • (ʼà loo hseḧ thoh)

/ʔàlúsʰɛ̰θó/


အၣ်လူ

အၣ်လူ • (ʼà loo)


ခၠီကလဲး

/t͡ɕʰɔ̰ka̰lɛʔ/

Borrowed from Burmese ချောကလက် (hkyau:ka.lak).


တၢ်နုၢ်ထံလီၤသကၤ

တၢ်နုၢ်ထံလီၤသကၤ • (ta̱ nu̱ hṭee law̄ tha kā)

/tànùtʰílɔ́θa̰kà/


တၢ်ဆၢကိၢ်လိၢ်

တၢ်ဆၢကိၢ်လိၢ် • (ta̱ hsuh koẖ loẖ)

/tàsʰɛ́kòlò/


ဖျၤ

ဖျၤ • (hplā)


ချိၣ်သဝံးခံ

/kʰa̰lòθa̰wḭkʰí/


ထိးကလဲာ်

ထိးကလဲာ် • (hṭoḧ ka leḥ)


သံမိၢ်ပီၤ

သံမိၢ်ပီၤ • (thee moẖ paw̄)


သၣ်ဝံၤ

သၣ်ဝံၤ • (thà weē)


တၢ်ခံး

တၢ်ခံး • (ta̱ kheë)


ဘိၣ်

ဘိၣ် • (boh̀)


ဃဲၤ

ဃဲၤ • (xeh̄)


မဲာ်ညါ

မဲာ်ညါ • (meḥ nyah)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo မေံယာ့ (mèQjâ).


အပှဲၤ

အပှဲၤ • (ʼa phgeh̄)


တၢ်အၢၣ်

တၢ်အၢၣ် • (ta̱ ʼuh̀)


တၢၢ်ကွဲၤ

တၢၢ်ကွဲၤ • (tuẖ kweh̄)


မာ်ဖိ

မာ်ဖိ • (mạ hpoh)


ဒဲၣ်မုၣ်

ဒဲၣ်မုၣ် • (deh̀ mù)

a daughter-in-law; a daughter by marriage.


ဘူးတံၢ်

ဘူးတံၢ် • (boö tee̱)

a relative; a person connected by birth or marriage.


ဝဲၢ်ပှၢ်

ဝဲၢ်ပှၢ် • (weẖ phga̱)


သးပှၢ်

သးပှၢ် • (thä phga̱)

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ပှၢ် (phga̱, “old”).


သးပှၢ်

သးပှၢ် • (thä phga̱)


ဒီဒိၣ်

ဒီဒိၣ် • (daw doh̀)

the relationship existing between the parents of a man and that of his wife.


ဒီၡဲၣ်ဒိၣ်

ဒီၡဲၣ်ဒိၣ် • (daw sheh̀ doh̀)


မုၣ်ကမဲ

မုၣ်ကမဲ • (mù ka meh)

From မုၣ် (mù, “female”) + ကမဲ (ka meh, “be widowed”).

compound

a widow: a woman who has lost her husband and has no husband.


ဖိဒိၣ်ခွါ

a nephew; the son of your brother or sister.


ဖိဒိၣ်မုၣ်

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ဖိဒိၣ်မုၣ် • (hpoh doh̀ mù)

a niece; the daughter of your brother or sister.


ခိုၣ်ဃံ

ခိုၣ်ဃံ • (khoh ù xee)


ခိၣ်တိသၣ်

ခိၣ်တိသၣ် • (khoh̀ toh thà)

the forehead, the brow; the part of the head above the eyes and below the hair-line.


ခိၣ်သူ

From ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + သူ (thoo). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဟ်သူ့ (khʊ́ θɯ̂).

hair; the hair that grows on the top of your head.


မဲာ်တူၢ်

မဲာ်တူၢ် • (meḥ too̱)


ဘိးပၤ

ဘိးပၤ • (boḧ pā)


ကိာ်ယူၤ

ကိာ်ယူၤ • (koḥ yoō)

throat; the tube inside your neck that takes food, water and air inside the body.


မဲာ်ချံ

မဲာ်ချံ • (meḥ khlee)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo မေံခၠီ့ (mèQkhlî).


ထးခိၣ်

ထးခိၣ် • (hṭä khoh̀)


ဖ့ဘၣ်ခိၣ်

ဖ့ဘၣ်ခိၣ် • (hpay bà khoh̀)


စုမုၢ်

စုမုၢ် • (su mu̱)


စုဒုၣ်

စုဒုၣ် • (su dù)

a forearm; the part of your body between the elbow and the hand.


တံာ်လာ်

တံာ်လာ် • (teẹ lạ)

an armpit; the space underneath your arm at the shoulder joint.


စုမ့ၣ်

စုမ့ၣ် • (su maỳ)

a claw; one of the hard sharp toe-nails that some animals and birds have on their feet.

a finger-nail; the hard part that protects the end of your fingers.


သးနါပှၢ်

သးနါပှၢ် • (thä nah phga̱)

the chest; the front of the body between the neck and the waist.


ကဖု

the stomach; the part of the body that holds your food after you have eaten it.


ခီဒုၣ်

ခီဒုၣ် • (khaw dù)

a calf; the back part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.


ခီၣ်လ့ၣ်ခိၣ်

ခီၣ်လ့ၣ်ခိၣ် • (khaẁ laỳ khoh̀)

a knee; the joint that joins the upper and lower leg together.


ခီတစၢၤ

/kʰɔ̀ta̰sɛ̀/


အသးအိ

အသးအိ • (ʼa thä ʼoh)


ခီၣ်ညါသၣ်

ခီၣ်ညါသၣ် • (khaẁ nyah thà)


အသူၣ်

အသူၣ် • (ʼa thoò)


အပွံး

အပွံး • (ʼa pweë)


ခီၣ်နၢၤခံ

ခီၣ်နၢၤခံ • (khaẁ nuh̄ khee)


ဒၢလီၢ်

ဒၢလီၢ် • (duh law̱)

a uterus, a womb; the part of a female animal's body where the fertilized egg grows into a baby.


အသး

အသး • (ʼa thä)

From အ (ʼa, “his, her, its, their”) + သး (thä, “heart, soul, self”).

compound

Used in reflexive clauses: himself, herself, itself, themselves


အကလ့ၤ

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အကလ့ၤ • (ʼa ka laȳ)


ချံၣ်

ချံၣ် • (khleè)


ဘီဖျး

a back-hoe, a mattock; a tool for digging the soil.


နီၣ်ဘျုး

နီၣ်ဘျုး • (naẁ blü)

a sling, a catapult; a weapon used to fire small stones.


ဘီခိၣ်စု

a harpoon; used for catching whales and other large sea creatures.


ကွါ

an axe; a tool for chopping wood or trees.


နီၣ်ပုာ်

နီၣ်ပုာ် • (naẁ pụ)


ထု

a snare, a trap; a device made for catching an animal.


ချံၣ်နီပုာ်

ချံၣ်နီပုာ် • (khleè naw pụ)


မၢ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo မိုင့် (mə̂ɴ).

to send; to make someone or something go somewhere.

to ask; to speak in order to find out about or to get something.

to command; to order someone to do something.


တ့ၤခီၣ်

တ့ၤခီၣ် • (taȳ khaẁ)


က့ၣ်

က့ၣ် • (kaỳ)


မၤက့ၣ်

မၤက့ၣ် • (mā kaỳ)


က့ၣ်လီၤ

က့ၣ်လီၤ • (kaỳ law̄)


ဖၣ်ကပူၤ

ဖၣ်ကပူၤ • (hpà ka poō)

a fireplace; the place where a fire is lit inside the house.


သ့ၣ်မုၢ်

သ့ၣ်မုၢ် • (thaỳ mu̱)

firewood; small pieces of wood collected or cut to be burnt on a fire.


တၢ်ခိၣ်စိး

တၢ်ခိၣ်စိး • (ta̱ khoh̀ soḧ)


တၢ်လူၢ်

တၢ်လူၢ် • (ta̱ loo̱)


ကစၢၢ်

ကစၢၢ် • (ka suẖ)


ဆီၣ်

ဆီၣ် • (hsaẁ)


တၢ်ကတိၤ

တၢ်ကတိၤ • (ta̱ ka toh̄)


ဖီး

ဖီး • (hpaẅ)


နၢ်ဟူ

နၢ်ဟူ • (na̱ hoo)

From နၢ် (na̱, “ear”) + ဟူ (hoo). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏာႋဟှိုင့် (nā hHə̂ɴ).


ကနၣ်

ကနၣ် • (ka nà)

a blade, the cutting edge of a knife, axe, etc.


ကနၣ်

ကနၣ် • (ka nà)


ဟ့ၣ်

ဟ့ၣ် • (haỳ)


နုာ်

From Proto-Karen *n( )Ɂᴰ (“enter”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen နွို့ꩻ.


သဝီ

tha waw (romanization)
ဖျၢၣ် (classifier)

Borrowed from Mon တွာန်. Compare Eastern Pwo တွာန့် (twâɴ).


ကိၢ်

ကိၢ် • (koẖ)

From Proto-Karen *goᴮ (“sunlight, hot”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဝ်ႋ (khʊ̄).


ဆံး

ဆံး • (hseë)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆာ် (chài), Western Pwo ဆံၭ.


က့ၤ

postverbal directional marker (~က့ၤ): back

postverbal adverbial marker (~က့ၤ): again, re-


အီ

From Proto-Karen *ʔɔᴬ (“drink”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo အဝ် (ʔɔ̀), Western Pwo အီၩ.


ဒိၣ်

ဒိၣ် • (doh̀)

From Proto-Karen *ʔdoᴮ (“big, large”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဒိၪ, Eastern Pwo ဍောဟ် (dʊ́).


ဟဲ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၯယ့် (ɣɛ̂), Western Pwo ဂဲၫ (ɣài).


ဟဲ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၯဲ (ɣɛ́).


ကွဲး

ကွဲး • (kweḧ)


စံးဆၢ

From စံး (seë, “say”) + ဆၢ (hsuh, “respond”). Cognate with Western Pwo စံၭဆၧၫ့.


ချံ

From Proto-Karen *klejᴬ (“boat”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခၠီ့ (khlî), Western Pwo ချံၫ.


ထိးမံၤ

ထိးမံၤ • (hṭoḧ meē)

From ထိး (hṭoḧ, “pig”) + မံၤ (meē, “wild”).


ကံၢ်မဲ

ကံၢ်မဲ • (kee̱ meh)


ပျံၤ

ပျံၤ • (pleē)


ပျံၤ

ပျံၤ • (pleē)


မဲးမုၢ်ခိၣ်

မဲးမုၢ်ခိၣ် • (meḧ mu̱ khoh̀)


မုၢ်ဂၢ်

မုၢ်ဂၢ် • (mu̱ gha̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo မောဝ်ႋၯာႋ (mʊ̄ ɣā).

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Eastern Pwo မောဝ်ႋၯာႋ (mʊ̄ ɣā)


မံၤ

From Proto-Karen *minᴬ (“name”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မိင် (mèiɴ), Western Pwo မံၩ့, Pa'o Karen မဉ်ꩻ.


မံၤ

From Proto-Karen *miᴬ (“wild”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မိင် (mèiɴ).


ဆူၣ်

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ဆူၣ် • (hsoò)

From Proto-Karen *chuNᴮ (“feather, fur, body hair”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆံင်း (chóɴ).


ဆူၣ်

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ဆူၣ် • (hsoò)

Used as the second component in verb compounds to indicate that something is done by force.


နၢ်ပၢၢ်

နၢ်ပၢၢ် • (na̱ puẖ)


ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂီၤ

ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂီၤ • (haẁ khoh̀ ghaw̄)

From ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် (haẁ khoh̀, “earth”) + ဂီၤ (ghaw̄, “picture”).


နၢ်က့ၣ်

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နၢ်က့ၣ် • (na̱ kaỳ)

From နၢ် (na̱, “ear”) + က့ၣ် (kaỳ, “crooked”).


တၢ်ဆါဟံၣ်

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တၢ်ဆါဟံၣ် • (ta̱ hsah heè)

From တၢ်ဆါ (ta̱ hsah, “sickness”) + ဟံၣ် (heè, “house”).


နၢၤ

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နၢၤ • (nuh̄)

From Proto-Karen *noŋᴬ (“horn”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo နုံ (nòʊɴ).


မဲာ်ထံကလၤ

မဲာ်ထံကလၤ • (meḥ hṭee ka lā)


ဖး

Compare Burmese ဖတ် (hpat), Western Pwo ဖီ.


အိၣ်ခိး

အိၣ်ခိး • (ʼoh̀ khoḧ)

From အိၣ် (ʼoh̀, “stay”) + ခိး (khoḧ, “wait”).


သၣ်မံယီၤ

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သၣ်မံယီၤ • (thà mee yaw̄)


လီၢ်မံ

လီၢ်မံ • (law̱ mee)

From လီၢ် (law̱, “place”) + မံ (mee, “sleep”).


သးခု

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ခု (khu, “elated”).


ဃံလၤ

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ဃံလၤ • (xee lā)


သဒီၣ်

သဒီၣ် • (tha daẁ)


ဂၤ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Western Pwo ဂၩ, Eastern Pwo ၯာ (ɣà).


ခါဆူညါ

From ခါ (khah, “time”) + ဆူ (hsoo, “to”) + ညါ (nyah, “front”).


သိလ့ၣ်

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သိလ့ၣ် • (thoh laỳ)

From သိ (thoh, “oil”) + လ့ၣ် (laỳ, “cart”).


ဝ့ၢ်

ဝ့ၢ် • (way̱)

Akin to Mon ဝၚ်, Shan ဝဵင်း (wáeng), Thai เวียง (wiiang). Cognate with Western Pwo ဝံး, Pa'o Karen ဝေင်ꩻ (wēŋ).


ပှ့ၤ

ပှ့ၤ • (phgaȳ)

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b-rey (“buy, barter”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဎွ့ၩ, Pa'o Karen ဖြေꩻ.


ပှ့ၤ

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ပှ့ၤ • (phgaȳ)


တၢ်ဆီတလဲ

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + ဆီတလဲ (hsaw ta leh, “change”).


နၢ်လိၤ

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နၢ်လိၤ • (na̱ loh̄)

From နၢ် (na̱, “ear”) + လိၤ (loh̄, “straight”).


တလါ

Borrowed from Mon ကလာ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo တၠာ့ (tlâ).


ပဲတြီ

Borrowed from Mon ပါၚ် တရၚ်. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ပါင်တြင့် (pàiɴ trâɴ).

bor

Mon ပါၚ် တရၚ်


ဝ့ၢ်တကူၣ်

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ဝ့ၢ်တကူၣ် • (way̱ ta koò)

From ဝ့ၢ် (way̱, “city”) + တကူၣ် (ta koò).


ကမံးတံာ်

ကမံးတံာ် • (ka meë teẹ)


ဝ့ၢ်ဘီကီး

ဝ့ၢ်ဘီကီး • (way̱ baw kaẅ)

From ဝ့ၢ် (way̱, “city”) + ဘီကီး (baw kaẅ, “Bangkok”).


ဆီညၣ်

From ဆီ (hsaw, “chicken”) + ညၣ် (nyà, “meat”).


ပသၢဝါ

From ပသၢ (pa thuh, “onion”) + ဝါ (wah, “white”).


တိၢ်

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တိၢ် • (toẖ)


တိၢ်

တိၢ် • (toẖ)


ဘူးဒး

ဘူးဒး • (boö dä)


ဧါ

Final interrogative particle, forming yes/no questions.


ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်

ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (ka nyaw kaw̱ seh̀)

From ကညီ (ka nyaw, “Karen”) + ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


ပျုၢ်

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ပျုၢ် • (plu̱)


ထွံၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်

ထွံၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် • (hṭweè haẁ khoh̀)

From ထွံၣ် (hṭweè, “dog”) + ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် (haẁ khoh̀, “earth”).


ခ့ယုၢ်

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ခ့ယုၢ် • (khay yu̱)


ဘၣ်ဆၣ်

ဘၣ်ဆၣ် • (bà hsà)


ထံဘျါ

From ထံ (hṭee, “water”) + ဘျါ (blah, “bland”).


ဃိၣ်လိာ်ကျိ

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ဃိၣ်လိာ်ကျိ • (xoh̀ loḥ kloh)


ထးနါ

ထးနါ • (hṭä nah)


နိၣ်

နိၣ် • (noh̀)


ပီၣ်လဲၣ်

ပီၣ်လဲၣ် • (paẁ leh̀)


သးပ့ၤနီၣ်

သးပ့ၤနီၣ် • (thä paȳ naẁ)


ကြၢး

ကြၢး • (kruḧ)


ကြၢး

ကြၢး • (kruḧ)


လီၢ်လံၤ

လီၢ်လံၤ • (law̱ leē)


စံာ်

စံာ် • (seẹ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆိက် (chái).


သး

From Proto-Karen *saʔᴰ (“heart”). Cognate with Western Pwo ၥၭ, Eastern Pwo သာ (θà), Pa'o Karen သꩻ.

တဘၣ်ထိၣ်သတြီၤနသးဒီးပှၤအဂၤနီတဘျီတဂ့ၤ

ta bà hṭoh̀ tha traw̄na thädaẅ phgā ʼa ghā naw ta blaw ta ghaȳ

ပဲတြီအိးထီၣ်ဃာ်အသး

Used to make a non-agentive verb out of an agentive verb, similar to an anticausative marker.


ခဲၣ်

ခဲၣ် • (kheh̀)


ဘီၣ်သိၣ်

ဘီၣ်သိၣ် • (baẁ thoh̀)


တီၣ်

တီၣ် • (taẁ)


ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ

ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ • (hsaỳ naw̄)


မၢကဲကုၢ်

မၢကဲကုၢ် • (muh keh ku̱)

From မၢ (muh, “order”) + ကဲ (keh, “become”) + ကုၢ် (ku̱, “slave”).


မၤသံ

From မၤ (mā, “make”) + သံ (thee, “die”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မာသီ့ (mà θî).


မၤ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo မာ (mà), Pa'o Karen မာꩻ.


ခံး

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ခံး • (kheë)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Pa'o Karen ခေ့ꩻ.

တၢ်ခံး


ဘိ

From Proto-Karen *ɁbɔNᴬ (“classifier for long objects”).

inh

Classifier for elongated, one-dimensional objects.


ခီ

ထိးအခီၣ်အိၣ်လွံၢ်ခီ.

Classifier for sides or parts of a pair or set.


ကၠိ

Borrowed from Burmese ကျောင်း (kyaung:). Compare Eastern Pwo ကျံင်ႋ (kjōɴ).


ဖျၢၣ်

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ဖျၢၣ် • (hpluh̀)

From Proto-Karen *phloŋᴮ (“classifier for round objects”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖၠုံး (phlóʊɴ), Western Pwo ဖျိၪ့, Pa'o Karen ဖြုံႏ.

inh

Classifier for round, three-dimensional objects.


မ့ၢ်

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မ့ၢ် • (may̱)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo မွာဲ (mwɛ̄), Western Pwo မွဲ, Pa'o Karen မွေး.

မ့ၢ်နဖိခွါအိၣ်ဒံးတဂၤဂၤဧါ.

may̱na hpoh khwah ʼoh̀ deë ta ghā ghā ahh ah .

Pre-clausal modal verb indicating a polar question: is it (the case) that?


မၤစၢၤ

မၤစၢၤ • (mā suh̄)

From မၤ (mā, “do”) + စၢၤ (suh̄). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မာဆိုင် (mà chə̀ɴ).


အိၣ်

အိၣ် • (ʼoh̀)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo အှ် (ʔɔ́), Pa'o Karen အဝ်ႏ.


ပူၤ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖိုင် (phə̀ɴ).


န့ၢ်

န့ၢ် • (nay̱)

From Proto-Karen *neᴮ (“obtain, receive, take, get”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏေဝ်ႋ (nī̱), Pa'o Karen နေး (nê).

inh

နဖးန့ၢ်ယၤလံာ်သ့ဧါ.

(post-verbal marker) Used to introduce a beneficiary.

ယမၤလိကညီကျိာ်န့ၢ်တနံၣ်လံ.

(perfect marker) Used after a clause to express that something has been going on continuously until the present time, usually followed by a phrase specifying the duration.

ယကွၢ်နၤတန့ၢ်ဧါ.

(post-clausal auxiliary) Used after a clause to express that the subject manages to or is permitted to perform an action.


န့ၢ်

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န့ၢ် • (nay̱)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Compare Eastern Pwo ဏါင်း (náiɴ).

စီၤစ့ဒိၣ်တၢ်ဂ့ၤန့ၢ်ဒံးအပါလီၤ.

Saw Say is more handsome than his father..

saw̄ say doh̀ ta̱ ghaȳnay̱deë ʼa pah law̄ .

comparative degree
comparative degree#English

(postverbal marker) used to indicate comparative degree; often used together with ဒံး (deë)


စူၤ

တၢ်စူၤ


ဆဲး

ဆဲး • (hseḧ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆေဝ် (chì̱).


ဆဲး

ဆဲး • (hseḧ)


လၢ

ပကလဲၤလၢဘီကီး.

ပကလဲၤလၢလ့ၣ်မ့ၣ်အူ.


လၢ

Introduces a relative clause: which, who

complement clause
complement clause#English


မၤနၢၤ

မၤနၢၤ • (mā nuh̄)

From မၤ (mā, “do”) + နၢၤ (nuh̄, “win”). Compare Eastern Pwo နိုင် (nə̀ɴ).


ဆိကမိၣ်

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆံင့်မံင်း (chôɴ móɴ).


မဲာ်ထံ

မဲာ်ထံ • (meḥ hṭee)

From မဲာ် (meḥ, “eye”) + ထံ (hṭee, “water”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မေံထီ့ (mèQthî).


ကီၢ်

ကီၢ် • (kaw̱)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခါန်ႋ (khāɴ).


တၢ်မၤ

တၢ်မၤ • (ta̱ mā)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + မၤ (mā, “do”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆ်ုမာ (chə mà).


နီၣ်

နီၣ် • (naẁ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏင်း (náɴ).


နီၣ်

နီၣ် • (naẁ)

Used as the first component in nominal compounds indicating an instrument.


နီၣ်

နီၣ် • (naẁ)

ယနီၣ်ကါသ့.


ဘျီ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Western Pwo ဘျၩ့.


ကွၢ်

ကွၢ် • (kwa̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခွါႋ (khwā), Western Pwo ခွါ.

အီၣ်ကွၢ်ကသူအံၤ.

Postverbal marker indicating that an action is performed by way of trial.


ကွံာ်

ကွံာ် • (kweẹ)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခွိက် (khwái), Western Pwo ခွံၬ.

သုးကွံာ်စဘှဲတဖျၢၣ်အံၤ.

Post-verbal marker expressing disappearance or disposal (~ကွံာ်): away


ကိး

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ကိုဝ် (kò), Western Pwo ကိၭ (koʔ).


သ့

Cognate with Eastern Pwo သှ်ေ (θí̱), Western Pwo ၁့ၪ.

ယပီၢ်ထံသ့လီၤ.

Auxiliary used after a clause to express that the subject has the skill, ability, or permission to perform an action.


ပိာ်

ပိာ် • (poḥ)

ဟဲပိာ်ယခံ.

သးဝံၣ်ပိာ်ယခံ.

Postverbal marker indicating to follow someone in doing something.


ပိာ်

ပိာ် • (poḥ)


ဆှုၣ်

ဆှုၣ် • (hshgù)


တၢ်ဃုထၢ

တၢ်ဃုထၢ • (ta̱ xu hṭuh)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + ဃုထၢ (xu hṭuh, “choose”).


ဖု

သုးတဖု

Classifier for groups of people and flocks of animals.


စးထီၣ်

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စးထီၣ် • (sä hṭaẁ)

From စး (sä, “start”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “ascend”). Compare Burmese စ (ca.). Cognate with Western Pwo စၭထၪ့.


တီၤဖုၣ်ကၠိ

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တီၤဖုၣ်ကၠိ • (taw̄ hpù kyoh)

From တီၤ (taw̄, “grade”) + ဖုၣ် (hpù, “low”) + ကၠိ (kyoh, “school”).


တဲပျံၤ

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တဲပျံၤ • (teh pleē)

From တဲ (teh, “tell”) + ပျံၤ (pleē, “fear”).


ဖုၣ်

ဖုၣ် • (hpù)


ဖီအီၣ်

ဖီအီၣ် • (hpaw ʼaẁ)

From ဖီ (hpaw, “cook”) + အီၣ် (ʼaẁ, “eat”).


တဲပၠး

တဲပၠး • (teh pyä)

From တဲ (teh, “tell”) + ပၠး (pyä, “show”).


ပၠး

Used as a post-verbal modifier in verb compounds to indicate that something is done by way of demonstration.


သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်

သ့ၣ်ပှၢ် • (thaỳ phga̱)

From သ့ၣ် (thaỳ, “tree”) + ပှၢ် (phga̱).


ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်

ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် • (kaw̱ raỳ)

(Myanmar) district, administrative subdivision of ကီၢ်ဒိၣ် (kaw̱ doh̀, “region”) and ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


ကီၢ်ဒိၣ်

ကီၢ်ဒိၣ် • (kaw̱ doh̀)

From ကီၢ် (kaw̱, “land”) + ဒိၣ် (doh̀, “big”).

compound

region, administrative subdivision of Myanmar


ကယါကီၢ်စဲၣ်

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ကယါကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (ka yah kaw̱ seh̀)

From ကယါ (ka yah, “Kayah”) + ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


မိၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်

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မိၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (moh̀ kaw̱ seh̀)

From မိၣ် (moh̀, “Mon”) + ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


ကခၠ့ၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်

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ကခၠ့ၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (ka khyaỳ kaw̱ seh̀)

From ကခၠ့ၣ် (ka khyaỳ, “Kachin”) + ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


ယိၤဒိၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ်

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ယိၤဒိၣ်ကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (yoh̄ doh̀ kaw̱ seh̀)

From ယိၤဒိၣ် (yoh̄ doh̀, “Shan”) + ကီၢ်စဲၣ် (kaw̱ seh̀, “state”).


ကီၢ်စဲၣ်

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ကီၢ်စဲၣ် • (kaw̱ seh̀)

state, administrative subdivision of Myanmar


ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဟူး

ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဟူး • (haẁ khoh̀ hoö)

From ဟီၣ်ခိၣ် (haẁ khoh̀, “earth”) + ဟူး (hoö, “shake”).


ပုၢ်

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ပုၢ် • (pu̱)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖူႋ (phɯ̄), Western Pwo ဖု, Pa'o Karen ဖူး.


ဃိာ်

ဃိာ် • (xoḥ)


ဆ့ပျိၢ်

ဆ့ပျိၢ် • (hsay ploẖ)

From ဆ့ (hsay, “upper garment”) + ပျိၢ် (ploẖ).

compound

red, traditional Karen upper garment worn by men


ဆ့မိၢ်သူ

From ဆ့ (hsay, “upper garment”) + မိၢ် (moẖ) + သူ (thoo, “black”).

black, traditional Karen upper garment worn by married women


နုာ်လီၤ

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နုာ်လီၤ • (nụ law̄)

From နုာ် (nụ, “enter”) + လီၤ (law̄, “descend”). Compare Eastern Pwo နုက်လင် (náʊ làɴ).


ထံကီၢ်

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ထံကီၢ် • (hṭee kaw̱)

From ထံ (hṭee, “water”) + ကီၢ် (kaw̱, “land”). Compare Eastern Pwo ထီ့ခါန်ႋ (thî khāɴ), Western Pwo ထံၫခး, Pa'o Karen ခမ်းထီ.


ဂ့ၢ်

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ဂ့ၢ် • (ghay̱)


ထံၣ်

ထံၣ် • (hṭeè)


ထံၣ်

ထံၣ် • (hṭeè)

တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တထံၣ်


ပှဲၤ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(p/b)liŋ (“full, fill”).

inh

Used as a post-clausal modifier to indicate that the subject has what it takes to do or endure something: be able to, be capable of


လဲၢ်

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လဲၢ် • (leẖ)

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *glay (“wide, apart”).


ဖၠၣ်

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ဖၠၣ် • (hpyà)


ကဘီ

Borrowed from Mon က္ၜၚ်. Cognate with Eastern Pwo က္ၜင် (kbàɴ).


ဆံးယံာ်

ဆံးယံာ် • (hseë yeẹ)

From ဆံး (hseë, “small”) + ယံာ် (yeẹ, “long”).


ဘၣ်တဘၣ်

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ဘၣ်တဘၣ် • (bà ta bà)

From ဘၣ် (bà, “hit, encounter”) + တ (ta, “not”).


ကၠိသရၣ်

From ကၠိ (kyoh, “school”) + သရၣ် (tha rà, “teacher”).


ကညီကျိာ်

From ကညီ (ka nyaw, “Karen”) + ကျိာ် (kloḥ, “language”).


ပာ်တ့ၢ်

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ပာ်တ့ၢ် • (pạ tay̱)

From ပာ် (pạ, “put”) + တ့ၢ် (tay̱, “remain”).


ဒံး

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဍာ် (dài), Pa'o Karen ဒေ့ꩻ (déʔ).


ဒံး

Used to indicate continuation of a situation: still


သးဟ့

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ဟ့ (hay, “hate”).


တၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့

တၢ်အိၣ်ဆူၣ်အိၣ်ချ့ • (ta̱ ʼoh̀ hsoò ʼoh̀ khlay)


စံးဘျုး

စံးဘျုး • (seë blü)

From စံး (seë, “say”) + ဘျုး (blü, “benefit”).

compound

ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မး.


အီၤ

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အီၤ • (ʼaw̄)


တၢ်စံၣ်ကျံၣ်

တၢ်စံၣ်ကျံၣ် • (ta̱ seè kleè)


ကိတိာ်

ကိတိာ် • (koh toḥ)


အါထီၣ်

အါထီၣ် • (ʼah hṭaẁ)

From အါ (ʼah, “be many”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “go up”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo အးထင်း (ʔá tháɴ).


လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီ

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လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီ • (leh̄ hṭaẁ leh̄ hṭaw)


လံၤလံၤ

လံၤလံၤ • (leē leē)


ဂီၢ်

ဂီၢ် • (ghaw̱)

(အ~) Used after a purposive clause to indicate that something is done for the purpose of the situation referred to by the said clause.


သးဆါ

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ဆါ (hsah, “hurt”).


တဘျီဃီ

From တဘျီ (ta blaw, “one time”) + ဃီ (xaw, “same”).


သးဒ့ဒီ

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ဒ့ဒီ (day daw).


အရီၢ်

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အရီၢ် • (ʼa raw̱)


အဝံၣ်

အဝံၣ် • (ʼa weè)


နိးဆူၣ်

နိးဆူၣ် • (noḧ hsoò)


ဖၢၣ်

ဖၢၣ် • (hpuh̀)


အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်

အိၣ်ခူသူၣ် • (ʼoh̀ khoo thoò)

From အိၣ် (ʼoh̀, “stay”) + ခူသူၣ် (khoo thoò, “hidden”).


လီၤတူာ်

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လီၤတူာ် • (law̄ toọ)


လံၢ်

လံၢ် • (lee̱)


ဘ့ၣ်

ဘ့ၣ် • (baỳ)

From Proto-Karen *Ɂbaᴮ (“classifier for flat objects”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၜိင်း (béiɴ), Western Pwo ဘံၪ့.

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Classifier for flat, two-dimensional objects.

Classifier for winged or saliently flat-shaped animals.


ထ့ၣ်

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ထ့ၣ် • (hṭaỳ)


ညီနုၢ်

ညီနုၢ် • (nyaw nu̱)


ဘၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ၣ်

ဘၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ၣ် • (bà thaỳ thaỳ)


ပတုာ်

ပတုာ် • (pa tụ)


မၤပတုာ်

မၤပတုာ် • (mā pa tụ)

From မၤ (mā, “make”) + ပတုာ် (pa tụ, “stop”).


လီၤစိၤ

လီၤစိၤ • (law̄ soh̄)


တၢ်အၢၣ်လီၤ

တၢ်အၢၣ်လီၤ • (ta̱ ʼuh̀ law̄)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + အၢၣ်လီၤ (ʼuh̀ law̄, “promise”).


သူၣ်လီၤ

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သူၣ်လီၤ • (thoò law̄)


တဂ့ၤ

From တ (ta, “not”) + ဂ့ၤ (ghaȳ, “good”).

တဘၣ်မၤနၢၤအီၣ်တၢ်တဂ့ၤ

Final particle used to end preventive or prohibitive sentences.


သကိး

Compare with Mon သ္ကံ (həkɔˀ, “company, companion”).

မၤလိသကိးတၢ်

Used as a post-verbal modifier: together


သထ့

Compare Mon သေထဳ, from Pali seṭṭhī (“wealthy man”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သယ်ထီ့ (θɛ̀ thî).


တီၤ

တီၤ • (taw̄)


စ့ၢ်ကီး

စ့ၢ်ကီး • (say̱ kaẅ)


တိၣ်

တိၣ် • (toh̀)


လိၣ်

လိၣ် • (loh̀)


လိၣ်

လိၣ် • (loh̀)


ပိာ်မုၣ်ပိာ်မၢၤ

ပိာ်မုၣ်ပိာ်မၢၤ • (poḥ mù poḥ muh̄)


ထူၣ်

ထူၣ် • (hṭoò)


ထူၣ်

ထူၣ် • (hṭoò)

Classifier for columns, poles, etcetera.


ကဘီယူၤ

From ကဘီ (ka baw, “ship”) + ယူၤ (yoō, “fly”).


ယူၤ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယူ (jɯ̀).


ကဘီယူၤပျီ

From ကဘီယူၤ (ka baw yoō, “airplane”) + ပျီ (plaw, “field”).


တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤ

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တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤ • (ta̱ hpeë ta̱ mā)


လီၤနံၤ

လီၤနံၤ • (law̄ neē)

From လီၤ (law̄, “go down”) + နံၤ (neē, “laugh”).


လီၤပျံၤ

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လီၤပျံၤ • (law̄ pleē)

From လီၤ (law̄, “go down”) + ပျံၤ (pleē, “fear”).


အဝဲသ့ၣ်

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အဝဲသ့ၣ် • (ʼa weh thaỳ)

From အဝဲ (ʼa weh, “he, she”) + သ့ၣ် (thaỳ, “plural marker”).


ဖံဖု

From ဖံ (hpee, “grandmother”) + ဖု (hpu, “grandfather”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဖံၫဖုၫ.

ယဖံယဖု


ပာ်လီၤ

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ပာ်လီၤ • (pạ law̄)

From ပာ် (pạ, “put”) + လီၤ (law̄, “down”).


လၢၤ

လၢၤ • (luh̄)

post-clausal marker used in negative contexts to indicate that a situation no longer is the case: anymore


သိၣ်လိ

From သိၣ် (thoh̀, “discipline, instruct”) + လိ (loh, “learn”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သံင်းလောဟ် (θóɴ lʊ́), Western Pwo ၁ီၪ့လိၪ (θàuɴlò).

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Eastern Pwo သံင်းလောဟ် (θóɴ lʊ́)


တမျာ်

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တမျာ် • (ta mlạ)

Compare with Mon ဓမၠ. Cognate with Western Pwo ထမျၬ.


စိာ်

စိာ် • (soḥ)


ဃီ

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Western Pwo ဎၫ့ (xàɴ).


ထိၣ်ဒ့ၣ်

ထိၣ်ဒ့ၣ် • (hṭoh̀ daỳ)


နီၢ်ကီၢ်

နီၢ်ကီၢ် • (naw̱ kaw̱)


ဒီၣ်

ဒီၣ် • (daẁ)


လဲၤက့ၤ

လဲၤက့ၤ • (leh̄ kaȳ)

Verb compound consisting of လဲၤ (leh̄, “go”) + က့ၤ (kaȳ, “return”).


ဒ့မုၣ်

ဒ့မုၣ် • (day mù)


ဟဲက့ၤ

ဟဲက့ၤ • (heh kaȳ)

Verb compound consisting of ဟဲ (heh, “come”) + က့ၤ (kaȳ, “return”).


လံၤမုၣ်

လံၤမုၣ် • (leē mù)

From လံၤ (leē, “grandchild”) + မုၣ် (mù, “female”).


တြဲၤ

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တြဲၤ • (treh̄)


တၢ်စုၣ်တၢ်ပျၢ်

တၢ်စုၣ်တၢ်ပျၢ် • (ta̱ sù ta̱ pla̱)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + စုၣ် (sù, “poison”) + ပျၢ် (pla̱). Elaborate variant of တၢ်စုၣ် (ta̱ sù).


သးအုး

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သးအုး • (thä ʼü)


ခ့

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-k(e/ə)y (“tiger”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေဝ့် (khî̱), Pa'o Karen ကေ, Manipuri ꯀꯩ (kei).


ဆၣ်

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dza (“eat”) (Benedict 1972).


တမှံၤ

From Mon တၟုဲ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo မှဲ (mHɛ́).


သဘျုၣ်

သဘျုၣ် • (tha blù)


သဘျုၣ်လၣ်

သဘျုၣ်လၣ် • (tha blù là)

From သဘျုၣ် (tha blù, “betel”) + လၣ် (là, “leaf”).


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လီတာ် • (law tạ)

Compare with Shan လၢင်းတႃႉ (láang tâ̰a) and Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta.).


ကမဲ

From Mon ကၟဲာ. Cognate with Eastern Pwo မယ့် (mɛ̂).


ဒူ

From Mon ဍုၚ်. Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဍုံ (dòʊɴ).


ကသံၣ်

ကသံၣ် • (ka theè)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo သီး (θí), Pa'o Karen တသီႏ.


ဖြာꩻ

ဖြာꩻ • (phrā)


ပှၢ်

ပှၢ် • (phga̱)


ဝဲၢ်

ဝဲၢ် • (weẖ)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Pa'o Karen ဝေး.


ယံာ်

ယံာ် • (yeẹ)


သလ့ၤ

(~လါ) Thalay, the first month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with December–January


ထ့ကူၣ်

ထ့ကူၣ် • (hṭay koò)

(~လါ) the second month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with February


လါပျုၤ

လါပျုၤ • (lah plū)

From လါ (lah, “moon, month”) + ပျုၤ (plū).

the La Plu month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with December


လါနွံ

From လါ (lah, “month”) + နွံ (nwee, “seven”).

the La Nwi month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with June


ဒ့ၣ်ညါ

ဒ့ၣ်ညါ • (daỳ nyah)

(~လါ) the Day Nya month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with May


ဆံးမုၢ်

ဆံးမုၢ် • (hseë mu̱)

(~လါ) the Hsih Mu month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with September


ဆံးဆၣ်

ဆံးဆၣ် • (hseë hsà)

(~လါ) the Hsih Hsah month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with October


လါခူး

the La Hkuh month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with August


လါနီ

From လါ (lah, “moon, month”) + နီ (naw).

the La Naw month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with November


လါဃိး

လါဃိး • (lah xoḧ)

From လါ (lah, “month”) + ဃိး (xoḧ, “eight”).

the La Khoh month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with July


လါချံ

From လါ (lah, “moon, month”) + ချံ (khlee, “seed”).

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(~လါ) La Hkli, the fourth month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with April


နၣ်ရံၣ်

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နၣ်ရံၣ် • (nà reè)

Compare Burmese နာရီ (nari), Pa'o Karen နားရီႏ.


နၣ်ရံၣ်

နၣ်ရံၣ် • (nà reè)


သွ့ကီ

(~လါ) the third month of the Karen lunar calendar, roughly corresponding with March


ခီၣ်ညါသး

ခီၣ်ညါသး • (khaẁ nyah thä)


တခိး

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဝ် (khʊ̀), Pa'o Karen တခေါ့ꩻ.


သၣ်

fruit, used as the second component in words signifying fruits


ထဲၣ်

ထဲၣ် • (hṭeh̀)


လုၢ်ထံ

လုၢ်ထံ • (lu̱ hṭee)


ဘူၣ်

ဘူၣ် • (boò)

Auxiliary used after a clause to express that the subject has the courage to perform an action: dare to


ဖီၣ်

ဖီၣ် • (hpaẁ)


ခိး

ခိး • (khoḧ)


စံၣ်

စံၣ် • (seè)


ယိာ်

ယိာ် • (yoḥ)


ဆၢ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆိုင့် (chə̂ɴ).


ပယီၤ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ပ်ုယင် (pə jàɴ).


ကစၢ်

ကစၢ် • (ka sa̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo က်ုဆာႋ (kə chā).


အံၣ်

အံၣ် • (ʼeè)


ဖီလာ်

ဖီလာ် • (hpaw lạ)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖင့်လး (phâɴ lá).


ဖါတံၢ်

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖါ့ထီႋ (phâ thī).


ဖီခိၣ်

From ဖီ (hpaw) + ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head, top part”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖင့်ခေါဟ် (phâɴ khʊ́).


တမၣ်

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တမၣ် • (ta mà)


သရိာ်

သရိာ် • (tha roḥ)

Cognate with Burmese ဇရပ် (ja.rap), Eastern Pwo ဩုက်.


ကူာ်

ကူာ် • (koọ)


ကူာ်

ကူာ် • (koọ)

Classifier for a part, division, section, or half.


ကစၢ်ယွၤ

ကစၢ်ယွၤ • (ka sa̱ ywā)

From ကစၢ် (ka sa̱, “lord”) + ယွၤ (ywā, “God”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo က်ုဆာႋယွာ (kə chā jwà).


ယီၢ်

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ယီၢ် • (yaw̱)


ကွဲၢ်ကဘီ

ကွဲၢ်ကဘီ • (kweẖ ka baw)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခွဲါက္ၜင် (khwɛ̄ kbàɴ).


မိာ်

မိာ် • (moḥ)


ညၣ်ကိၣ်

ညၣ်ကိၣ် • (nyà koh̀)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယးကောဟ် (já kʊ́). See also Burmese ငါးခူ (nga:hku).


ညၣ်အုၣ်

ညၣ်အုၣ် • (nyà ʼù)

From ညၣ် (nyà, “fish”) + အုၣ် (ʼù, “rot”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယးအူး (já ʔɯ́).


နီၢ်ကစၢ်

နီၢ်ကစၢ် • (naw̱ ka sa̱)

From နီၢ် (naw̱, “body”) + ကစၢ် (ka sa̱, “master, owner”). Compare Eastern Pwo ဏင့်ဆာႋ (nâɴ chā).


မ့ၣ်ခုၣ်

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မ့ၣ်ခုၣ် • (maỳ khù)

From မ့ၣ် (maỳ, “fire”) + ခုၣ် (khù, “smoke”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မှ်ေခူး (mí̱ khɯ́).


ဟဲထီၣ်

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ဟဲထီၣ် • (heh hṭaẁ)

From ဟဲ (heh, “come”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “ascend”). Compare Eastern Pwo ၯယ့်ထင်း (ɣɛ̂ tháɴ).


မုၢ်နံၤ

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မုၢ်နံၤ • (mu̱ neē)

From မုၢ် (mu̱, “sun”) + နံၤ (neē, “day”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မူႋဏီ (mɯ̄ nì).


မိၤ

မိၤ • (moh̄)


မံမီၢ်

မံမီၢ် • (mee maw̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo မီ့မင်ႋ (mî māɴ).


မၤလိ

မၤလိ • (mā loh)

From မၤ (mā, “do, make”) + လိ (loh, “learn”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မာလောဟ် (mà lʊ́).


မၤကၢ်

မၤကၢ် • (mā ka̱)

From မၤ (mā, “make”) + ကၢ် (ka̱, “break”). Compare Eastern Pwo မာခါႋ (mà khā).


ဖံဝါ

From ဖံ (hpee, “grandmother”) + ဝါ (wah, “white”). Compare Eastern Pwo ဖီ့အွာ (phî ʔwà).


ဖီၣ်ဆူၣ်

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ဖီၣ်ဆူၣ် • (hpaẁ hsoò)

From ဖီၣ် (hpaẁ, “grab”) + ဆူၣ် (hsoò, “be strong”). Compare Eastern Pwo ဖံင်းဆံင်း (phóɴ chóɴ).


တၢ်သ့တၢ်ဘၣ်

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တၢ်သ့တၢ်ဘၣ် • (ta̱ thay ta̱ bà)

From တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + သ့ (thay, “be skilled”) + ဘၣ် (bà, “be correct”).


ဂုာ်ကျဲးစၢး

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ဂုာ်ကျဲးစၢး • (ghụ kleḧ suḧ)

From ဂုာ် (ghụ) + ကျဲးစၢး (kleḧ suḧ, “try, make an effort”).


ခိၣ်နူာ်

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ခိၣ်နူာ် • (khoh̀ noọ)

From ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head”) + နူာ် (noọ); the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw-k (“brain”).


ယ့ၣ်ၡူး

ယ့ၣ်ၡူး • (yaỳ shoö)


ဘၣ်ယိၣ်

ဘၣ်ယိၣ် • (bà yoh̀)


သုးက့

သုးက့ • (thü kay)

From သုး (thü, “army, military”) + က့ (kay).


တီၢ်ပူၤ

တီၢ်ပူၤ • (taw̱ poō)

တနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤ


ထးခိၣ်ထံ

ထးခိၣ်ထံ • (hṭä khoh̀ hṭee)

From ထးခိၣ် (hṭä khoh̀, “mouth”) + ထံ (hṭee, “water”).


ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်

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ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ် • (pạ hplah hṭaẁ)

From ပာ် (pạ, “put”) + ဖျါ (hplah, “be visible”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “go up”).


ဘိၣ်ထီၣ်

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ဘိၣ်ထီၣ် • (boh̀ hṭaẁ)

From ဘိၣ် (boh̀, “wrap”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “ascend, go up”).


သဲးသၣ်

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သဲးသၣ် • (theḧ thà)

From သဲး (theḧ, “areca palm”) + သၣ် (thà, “fruit”).


ဒိၣ်စိ

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ဒိၣ်စိ • (doh̀ soh)

From ဒိၣ် (doh̀, “be big”) + စိ (soh, “be elevated”).


စူးကါ

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စူးကါ • (soö kah)


သုးခိၣ်ဒိၣ်

သုးခိၣ်ဒိၣ် • (thü khoh̀ doh̀)

From သုး (thü, “army”) + ခိၣ် (khoh̀, “head, leader”) + ဒိၣ် (doh̀, “be big”).


ပၢၤကီၢ်ဝဲၤလီၢ်

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ပၢၤကီၢ်ဝဲၤလီၢ် • (puh̄ kaw̱ weh̄ law̱)

From ပၢၤကီၢ် (puh̄ kaw̱, “police”) + ဝဲၤလီၢ် (weh̄ law̱, “office”).


တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ကီ

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တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ကီ • (ta̱ ghay̱ kaw)

From တၢ်ဂ့ၢ် (ta̱ ghay̱, “matter”) + ကီ (kaw, “be difficult”).


ယိယိဖိ

From ယိ (yoh, “be simple”) + ဖိ (hpoh, “child, diminutive marker”).


မူၤသံး

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မူၤသံး • (moō theë)

From မူၤ (moō, “be intoxicated”) + သံး (theë, “alcohol”).


စီၤမိၤၡ့

From စီၤ (saw̄, “male honorific”) + မိၤၡ့ (moh̄ shay, “Moses”).


ပှၤတၢ်ဒဲးဘးဖိ

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ပှၤတၢ်ဒဲးဘးဖိ • (phgā ta̱ deḧ bä hpoh)

From ပှၤ (phgā, “person”) + တၢ်ဒဲးဘး (ta̱ deḧ bä, “sin”) + ဖိ (hpoh, “child”).


ကလူး

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ကလူး • (ka loö)

From Mon ကလုတ် (“emissary, ambassador, messenger”).


ကလီၢ်

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ကလီၢ် • (ka law̱)

one hundred thousand
one hundred thousand


ကီၢ်ဆၣ်

ကီၢ်ဆၣ် • (kaw̱ hsà)

(Myanmar) township, administrative subdivision of ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် (kaw̱ raỳ, “district”).


ဖီၣ်ဂၢၢ်

ဖီၣ်ဂၢၢ် • (hpaẁ ghuẖ)

From ဖီၣ် (hpaẁ, “grab”) + ဂၢၢ် (ghuẖ, “be firm”).


နီၣ်တယၢ်

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နီၣ်တယၢ် • (naẁ ta ya̱)


ကရူၢ်

ကရူၢ် • (ka roo̱)

(Myanmar) village tract, fourth-level administrative subdivision.


ဘါထုကဖၣ်

ဘါထုကဖၣ် • (bah hṭu ka hpà)


ချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ်

ချၢၣ်လွံၢ်ထူၣ် • (khluh̀ lwee̱ hṭoò)

From ချၢၣ် (khluh̀, “banyan”) + လွံၢ် (lwee̱, “four”) + ထူၣ် (hṭoò, “trunk”).

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(~ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်) Kler Lwee Htoo (District), officially known as Nyaunglebin, a district located in eastern Bago Region of Myanmar.


အီကူး

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အီကူး • (ʼaw koö)


မုၢ်တြီၢ်

မုၢ်တြီၢ် • (mu̱ traw̱)

compound

မုၢ် (mu̱) + တြီၢ် (traw̱)

(~ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်) Mutraw (District), officially known as Hpapun, a district located in Kayin State, Myanmar.


ဘျံး

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ဘျံး • (bleë)

(~ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်) Myeik (District), a district located in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar.


ထံတမၢၣ်

ထံတမၢၣ် • (hṭee ta muh̀)


တီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ

တီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ • (taw khoh̀ roh̀ meh)


ထံၣ်ဆံး

ထံၣ်ဆံး • (hṭeè hseë)

From ထံၣ် (hṭeè, “see”) + ဆံး (hseë, “be small”).


ဘၢၣ်စၢၤ

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ဘၢၣ်စၢၤ • (buh̀ suh̄)


သိၣ်မှံၤ

သိၣ်မှံၤ • (thoh̀ mhgeē)

From သိၣ် (thoh̀, “friend”) + မှံၤ (mhgeē). Compare the first component with Eastern Pwo သောဝ် (θʊ̀).


ခိၣ်ဃၢၤန့ဆၢၣ်

ခိၣ်ဃၢၤန့ဆၢၣ် • (khoh̀ xuh̄ nay hsuh̀)

From ခိၣ်ဃၢၤ (khoh̀ xuh̄, “surroundings”) + န့ဆၢၣ် (nay hsuh̀, “nature”).


အ့ၣ်ဆါ

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အ့ၣ်ဆါ • (ʼaỳ hsah)


ကိၣ်

ကိၣ် • (koh̀)


ပှၤထူလံၤဖိ

ပှၤထူလံၤဖိ • (phgā hṭoo leē hpoh)

From ပှၤ (phgā, “person”) + ထူလံၤ (hṭoo leē, “indigenous”) + ဖိ (hpoh, “child”).


လိၤ

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လိၤ • (loh̄)


သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ်

သ့ၣ်ပှၢ်ဝၣ်ပှၢ် • (thaỳ phga̱ wà phga̱)

From သ့ၣ် (thaỳ, “tree”) + ဝၣ် (wà, “bamboo”) + ပှၢ် (phga̱).


ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါ

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ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါ • (dü thaỳ nyah)

From ဒုး (dü, “cause, let”) + သ့ၣ်ညါ (thaỳ nyah, “know”).


ကူာ်ကၢ်

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ကူာ်ကၢ် • (koọ ka̱)

From ကူာ် (koọ, “cut, chop”) + ကၢ် (ka̱, “break”).


တ့ၤအီၣ်ဖီအီၣ်

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တ့ၤအီၣ်ဖီအီၣ် • (taȳ ʼaẁ hpaw ʼaẁ)

From တ့ၤ (taȳ, “cook in bamboo”) + ဖီ (hpaw, “cook”) + အီၣ် (ʼaẁ, “eat”).


ထၢလၣ်

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ထၢလၣ် • (hṭuh là)

Dipterocarpus tuberculatus
Dipterocarpus tuberculatus#Translingual

leaf of the Dipterocarpus tuberculatus tree used for thatching


ပဟံၣ်

ပဟံၣ် • (pa heè)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ပ်ုယီး (pə jí).


သးစၢ်

သးစၢ် • (thä sa̱)

From သး (thä, “heart”) + စၢ် (sa̱, “weak, young”).


သးစၢ်

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သးစၢ် • (thä sa̱)


ဘၣ်ဒိ

ဘၣ်ဒိ • (bà doh)


လီၤမၢ်

လီၤမၢ် • (law̄ ma̱)


ကတၢၢ်

ကတၢၢ် • (ka tuẖ)


ကတၢၢ်

ကတၢၢ် • (ka tuẖ)

Used as a superlative marker: -est, most


ထိၣ်သတြီၤ

ထိၣ်သတြီၤ • (hṭoh̀ tha traw̄)


ပီၢ်ရီ

ပီၢ်ရီ • (paw̱ raw)


လီၤသံး

လီၤသံး • (law̄ theë)


လိာ်ကွီၢ်

လိာ်ကွီၢ် • (loḥ kwaw̱)


ကွီၢ်ဘျီၣ်

ကွီၢ်ဘျီၣ် • (kwaw̱ blaẁ)


တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်

တၢ်ဂ့ၢ် • (ta̱ ghay̱)


ထံအီ

ထံအီ • (hṭee ʼaw)

From ထံ (hṭee, “water”) + အီ (ʼaw, “drink”).


လံာ်ညိၣ်သိၣ်ဒိၣ်

လံာ်ညိၣ်သိၣ်ဒိၣ် • (leẹ nyoh̀ thoh̀ doh̀)


ချီအီ

From ချီ (khlaw, “boil”) + အီ (ʼaw, “drink”).


ထုးထီၣ်

ထုးထီၣ် • (hṭü hṭaẁ)

From ထုး (hṭü, “pull”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “up”).


ဘျၢၣ်လိာ်အသး

ဘျၢၣ်လိာ်အသး • (bluh̀ loḥ ʼa thä)

From ဘျၢၣ် (bluh̀, “push, thrust”) + လိာ် (loḥ, “reciprocally”) + အသး (ʼa thä, “him-, her-, itself, themselves”).

compound

to butt heads (of animals), to clash horns


ခူသူၣ်

(in compounds) in secret, secretly, hidden


လံာ်ဖး

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လံာ်ဖး • (leẹ hpä)

From လံာ် (leẹ, “book, writing”) + ဖး (hpä, “read”).


တကွံ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo သာကုဲ (θà kwì).


တကွံသၣ်

From တကွံ (ta kwee, “banana”) + သၣ် (thà, “fruit”).


ကမျၢၢ်

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ကမျၢၢ် • (ka mluẖ)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဂမၠိုင်ႋ (kmlə̄ɴ).


တခိးသၣ်

တခိးသၣ် • (ta khoḧ thà)

From တခိး (ta khoḧ, “mango”) + သၣ် (thà, “fruit”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခေါဝ်သး (khʊ̀ θá).


ထိၣ်ဂံာ်

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ထိၣ်ဂံာ် • (hṭoh̀ gheẹ)

From ထိၣ် (hṭoh̀, “bird”) + ဂံာ် (gheẹ). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထောဟ်ၯိက် (thʊ́ ɣái).


ဝံၣ်

ဝံၣ် • (weè)


ထိၣ်ဒီၣ်

ထိၣ်ဒီၣ် • (hṭoh̀ daẁ)

From ထိၣ် (hṭoh̀, “bird”) + ဒီၣ် (daẁ). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထောဟ်ဍင်း (thʊ́ dáɴ).


ထိၣ်ပဝံ

ထိၣ်ပဝံ • (hṭoh̀ pa wee)

From ထိၣ် (hṭoh̀, “bird”) + ပဝံ (pa wee). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထောဟ်ဝီး (thʊ́ wí).


ခုၣ်

ခုၣ် • (khù)


ဂံၢ်

ဂံၢ် • (ghee̱)


စံၢ်

စံၢ် • (see̱)


ခံၣ်တံာ်

ခံၣ်တံာ် • (kheè teẹ)

Ricinus communis
Ricinus communis#Translingual


ပအူး

ပအူး • (pa ʼoö)