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.


လီၤ

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လီၤ • (law̄)

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

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

Postposed directional marker (~လီၤ): down

Postposed marker used in reflexive clauses.


အီၣ်

အီၣ် • (ʼaẁ)

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

(fire or disease) to affect (negatively), harm, destroy

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.


ထိး

ထိး • (hṭoḧ)


ဂီၤ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ၯဝ် (ɣɔ̀), Western Pwo ဂီၩ.


လံာ်

လံာ် • (leẹ)

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


လဲၤ

လဲၤ • (leh̄)

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


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”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-min (“ripe, cooked, delicious”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo မိင့် (mêiɴ), Burmese မှည့် (hmany.).


ကူ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-gywa(n/t) (“wear, put on, clothe”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ကံင် (kòɴ).

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).


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


အဲၣ်

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အဲၣ် • (ʼeh̀)


ဖီ

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


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.


သူၣ်

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သူၣ် • (thoò)


အ့ၣ်

အ့ၣ် • (ʼaỳ)


ဘှိး

ဘှိး • (bhgoḧ)


ကုၢ်

ကုၢ် • (ku̱)


ဃ့ၢ်

ဃ့ၢ် • (xay̱)


လ့ၣ်

လ့ၣ် • (laỳ)

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


ခူၣ်

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ခူၣ် • (khoò)

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


အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံတၢ်

အဲၣ်တၢ်ကွံတၢ် • (ʼeh̀ ta̱ kwee ta̱)


သ့ၣ်ညါ

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


ဆါ

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


ပျၢ်

ပျၢ် • (pla̱)

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


ဆိ

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


ကဲ

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


နီၣ်ထီၣ်

နီၣ်ထီၣ် • (naẁ hṭaẁ)

နီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘၣ်ယဲသုႉ


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.


က့ၣ်လီၤ

က့ၣ်လီၤ • (kaỳ law̄)


မၤက့ၣ်

မၤက့ၣ် • (mā kaỳ)


ဆီၣ်

ဆီၣ် • (hsaẁ)


ကနၣ်

ကနၣ် • (ka nà)


နၢ်ဟူ

နၢ်ဟူ • (na̱ hoo)

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

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Eastern Pwo ဏာႋၯိုင့် (nā ɣə̂ɴ)


နုာ်

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


ဟဲ

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


ကိၢ်

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ကိၢ် • (koẖ)

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


ဟ့ၣ်

ဟ့ၣ် • (haỳ)


အီ

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


က့ၤ

postverbal directional marker (~က့ၤ): back

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


ဆံး

ဆံး • (hseë)

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


ဒိၣ်

ဒိၣ် • (doh̀)

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


ကွဲး

ကွဲး • (kweḧ)


စံးဆၢ

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


ပျံၤ

ပျံၤ • (pleē)


ဆူၣ်

ဆူၣ် • (hsoò)

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

တဲတၢ်ဆူၣ်

Used after a clause to indicate that something is done energetically or a lot.


နၢၤ

နၢၤ • (nuh̄)


နၢ်ပၢၢ်

နၢ်ပၢၢ် • (na̱ puẖ)


ဖး

descriptive verb
descriptive verb#English

Used before monosyllabic descriptive verbs as an intensifier.


ဖး

Compare Burmese ဖတ် (hpat), Western Pwo ဖီ.


အိၣ်ခိး

အိၣ်ခိး • (ʼoh̀ khoḧ)

From အိၣ် (ʼoh̀, “stay”) + ခိး (khoḧ, “wait”). Cognate with Western Pwo အီၪခိၭ.


သးခု

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


ပှ့ၤ

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ပှ့ၤ • (phgaȳ)

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


တိၢ်

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တိၢ် • (toẖ)


သးပ့ၤနီၣ်

သးပ့ၤနီၣ် • (thä paȳ naẁ)


ကြၢး

ကြၢး • (kruḧ)


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.


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.


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.


ဆဲး

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ဆဲး • (hseḧ)

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


ဆဲး

ဆဲး • (hseḧ)


စူၤ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆိုင် (chə̀ɴ), Western Pwo ဆၧၩ့.

တၢ်စူၤ


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).


နီၣ်

နီၣ် • (naẁ)

ယနီၣ်ကါသ့.


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.


ပိာ်

ပိာ် • (poḥ)

ဟဲပိာ်ယခံ.

သးဝံၣ်ပိာ်ယခံ.


ပိာ်

ပိာ် • (poḥ)


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.


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).


ဆှုၣ်

ဆှုၣ် • (hshgù)


စးထီၣ်

စးထီၣ် • (sä hṭaẁ)

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


ဖီအီၣ်

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ဖီအီၣ် • (hpaw ʼaẁ)

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


တဲပျံၤ

တဲပျံၤ • (teh pleē)

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


ဖုၣ်

ဖုၣ် • (hpù)


ပၠး

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


တဲပၠး

တဲပၠး • (teh pyä)

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


နုာ်လီၤ

နုာ်လီၤ • (nụ law̄)

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


ကၢ်

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခါႋ (khā), Western Pwo ခါ.


ထံၣ်

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ထံၣ် • (hṭeè)


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


ပာ်တ့ၢ်

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ပာ်တ့ၢ် • (pạ tay̱)

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


သးဟ့

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


စံးဘျုး

စံးဘျုး • (seë blü)

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

compound

ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မး.


စၢၤ

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စၢၤ • (suh̄)

Placed after a verb to indicate that an action is performed to help someone.


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)


သးဒ့ဒီ

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


သးဆါ

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


အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်

အိၣ်ခူသူၣ် • (ʼoh̀ khoo thoò)

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


ဖၢၣ်

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ဖၢၣ် • (hpuh̀)


လီၤတူာ်

လီၤတူာ် • (law̄ toọ)


ဘ့ၣ်

ဘ့ၣ် • (baỳ)


ပတုာ်

ပတုာ် • (pa tụ)


မၤပတုာ်

မၤပတုာ် • (mā pa tụ)

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


သူၣ်လီၤ

သူၣ်လီၤ • (thoò law̄)


ယူၤ

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


လီၤနံၤ

လီၤနံၤ • (law̄ neē)

From လီၤ (law̄, “go down”) + နံၤ (neē, “laugh”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo လင်ဏီႋ (làɴ nī).


လီၤပျံၤ

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လီၤပျံၤ • (law̄ pleē)

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


ပာ်လီၤ

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ပာ်လီၤ • (pạ law̄)

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


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)


စိာ်

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စိာ် • (soḥ)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆေါဝ် (chʊ̀), Western Pwo ဆိၬ (shoʔ).


နီၢ်ကီၢ်

နီၢ်ကီၢ် • (naw̱ kaw̱)


ဒီၣ်

ဒီၣ် • (daẁ)


ဟဲက့ၤ

ဟဲက့ၤ • (heh kaȳ)

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


လဲၤက့ၤ

လဲၤက့ၤ • (leh̄ kaȳ)

From လဲၤ (leh̄, “go”) + က့ၤ (kaȳ, “return”).


သးအုး

သးအုး • (thä ʼü)

From သး (thä, “heart”) + အုး (ʼü). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သာအုဂ် (θà ʔàʊ).


ကမဲ

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


ယံၤ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယာင် (jàiɴ), Pa'o Karen ညာꩻ.


ယံာ်

ယံာ် • (yeẹ)


ပှၢ်

ပှၢ် • (phga̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယှာႋ (jHā), Western Pwo ၡါ, Pa'o Karen ဖြား.


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


စံၣ်

စံၣ် • (seè)


ခိး

ခိး • (khoḧ)


ဖီၣ်

ဖီၣ် • (hpaẁ)


ယိာ်

ယိာ် • (yoḥ)


ဆၢ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဆိုင့် (chə̂ɴ).


ကူာ်

ကူာ် • (koọ)


အံၣ်

အံၣ် • (ʼeè)


ယီၢ်

ယီၢ် • (yaw̱)


ဟဲထီၣ်

ဟဲထီၣ် • (heh hṭaẁ)

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


မံမီၢ်

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မံမီၢ် • (mee maw̱)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo မီ့မင်ႋ (mî māɴ).


မၤကၢ်

မၤကၢ် • (mā ka̱)

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


ဖီၣ်ဆူၣ်

ဖီၣ်ဆူၣ် • (hpaẁ hsoò)

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


ဘၣ်ယိၣ်

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ဘၣ်ယိၣ် • (bà yoh̀)


ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်

ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ် • (pạ hplah hṭaẁ)

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


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)


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”).


ဖီၣ်ဂၢၢ်

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ဖီၣ်ဂၢၢ် • (hpaẁ ghuẖ)

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


ဘါထုကဖၣ်

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ဘါထုကဖၣ် • (bah hṭu ka hpà)


တီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ

တီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ • (taw khoh̀ roh̀ meh)


ထံၣ်ဆံး

ထံၣ်ဆံး • (hṭeè hseë)

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


အ့ၣ်ဆါ

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အ့ၣ်ဆါ • (ʼaỳ hsah)


လိၤ

လိၤ • (loh̄)

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognate with Eastern Pwo လံင် (lòɴ).


သးစၢ်

သးစၢ် • (thä sa̱)

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


ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါ

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ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါ • (dü thaỳ nyah)

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


တ့ၤအီၣ်ဖီအီၣ်

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တ့ၤအီၣ်ဖီအီၣ် • (taȳ ʼaẁ hpaw ʼaẁ)

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


ကူာ်ကၢ်

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ကူာ်ကၢ် • (koọ ka̱)

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


ဘၣ်ဒိ

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ဘၣ်ဒိ • (bà doh)


ကတၢၢ်

ကတၢၢ် • (ka tuẖ)

Used as a superlative marker: -est, most


လီၤမၢ်

လီၤမၢ် • (law̄ ma̱)


ထိၣ်သတြီၤ

ထိၣ်သတြီၤ • (hṭoh̀ tha traw̄)


ချီအီ

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


လိာ်ကွီၢ်

လိာ်ကွီၢ် • (loḥ kwaw̱)


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”).

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to butt heads (of animals), to clash horns


ဝံၣ်

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ဝံၣ် • (weè)


စံၢ်

စံၢ် • (see̱)


လိာ်ကွဲ

လိာ်ကွဲ • (loḥ kweh)

Cognate with Eastern Pwo လောတ်ကိုဲ (ló kwè).


လၢာ်

လၢာ် • (luḥ)


လီၤအဲၣ်

လီၤအဲၣ် • (law̄ ʼeh̀)

From လီၤ (law̄, “go down, -able”) + အဲၣ် (ʼeh̀, “love”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo လင်အဲ (làɴ ʔɛ́).


လိၢ်

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လိၢ် • (loẖ)


စှၤ

စှၤ • (shgā)

Cognates include Eastern Pwo ယှာ (jHà) and Eastern Pwo ၡၩ.


ပှီၢ်

ပှီၢ် • (phgaw̱)


သးအၢ

သးအၢ • (thä ʼuh)

From သး (thä, “heart, mind”) + အၢ (ʼuh, “bad, evil”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သာအိုင် (θà ʔə̀ɴ).

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Eastern Pwo သာအိုင် (θà ʔə̀ɴ)


သးဂ့ၤ

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သးဂ့ၤ • (thä ghaȳ)

From သး (thä, “heart”) + ဂ့ၤ (ghaȳ, “good”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo သာၯေဝ် (θà ɣì̱).


နၢ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-nam (“smell”). Cognates include Eastern Pwo နိုင့် (nə̂ɴ), Mizo hnîm, Manipuri ꯅꯝ (nam).

နကိာ်ပူၤနၢဒိၣ်မး

(intransitive) to (have a) smell, smell bad


ဖျး

ဖျး • (hplä)


ဖျီၣ်

ဖျီၣ် • (hplaẁ)

to put on (trousers, pants, a ring, socks, gloves)


ဃုာ်

(postverbal marker) together, along with


အိးထီၣ်

အိးထီၣ် • (ʼoḧ hṭaẁ)

From အိး (ʼoḧ, “open”) + ထီၣ် (hṭaẁ, “go up”).

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လဲၤအိးထီၣ်ပဲတြီ.


ဒိးထီၣ်

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ဒိးထီၣ် • (doḧ hṭaẁ)


ဘ့ၣ်လီၤ

ဘ့ၣ်လီၤ • (baỳ law̄)

From ဘ့ၣ် (baỳ) + လီၤ (law̄, “go down”).


ဘျဲး

ဘျဲး • (bleḧ)


တီၢ်

တီၢ် • (taw̱)


ယွၤ

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ယွာ (jwà), Western Pwo ယွၩ (ywa:).


ကီၤ

ကီၤ • (kaw̄)

ကီၤသူၣ်ကီၤသး

ကီၤတၢ်ဆါ

ကီၤအ့ၣ်ဆါ

(preceding a verb) to restrain from, force oneself not to


နၢအုၣ်

နၢအုၣ် • (nuh ʼù)

From နၢ (nuh, “smell”) + အုၣ် (ʼù, “be rotten”).


ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ

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ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲ • (heë su neh̀ kleh)

From ဟံး (heë, “grab”) + စု (su, “hand”) + နဲၣ် (neh̀, “point”) + ကျဲ (kleh, “way”).


သူၣ်ပိၢ်သးဝး

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သူၣ်ပိၢ်သးဝး • (thoò poẖ thä wä)


ဆၢတဲာ်

ဆၢတဲာ် • (hsuh teḥ)


ကွၢ်ထွဲ

ကွၢ်ထွဲ • (kwa̱ hṭweh)


ကိးက့ၤ

ကိးက့ၤ • (koḧ kaȳ)

From ကိး (koḧ, “call”) + က့ၤ (kaȳ, “return”).


ပာ်ကဲ

ပာ်ကဲ • (pạ keh)


အိၣ်ဘှံး

အိၣ်ဘှံး • (ʼoh̀ bhgeë)

From အိၣ် (ʼoh̀, “stay”) + ဘှံး (bhgeë).


ဒ့တၢ်အူတၢ်

ဒ့တၢ်အူတၢ် • (day ta̱ ʼoo ta̱)

From ဒ့ (day, “play”) + တၢ် (ta̱, “thing”) + အူ (ʼoo, “blow”).