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NAU NE NEK NENG NG FNG NGAI NGÁK

Nau.

-1
To twist; wrench; disturb; vex; mix; confess.
2
Indignation; grief.
2
The marrow of the head; brains; glossy; soft.
-3
A cross-bow fitted to throw several arrows in succession.

Ne.

2
Cold; solitary; lonely; careless.

Nek.

-4
Flesh; animal food; body.
-4
To lay the hand of; grasp; excite; provoke.
-4
To drown; sink down in water, vice, intoxication, &c.
-4
To hide; conceal; be hidden; abscond; clandestine.
-4
Feeling of shame; to be ashamed.

Neng.

-1
Power; able; morally able; willing.

Ng.

-1
Yellow; the color of earth.
𥝭1
The blade springing up; thick and close.

ʼNg.

-1
A garden; an enclosure.
1
A place; region; a plan; means; a recipe.

Ngai.

-1
Foolish; stupid.
-1
The bank of a river or stream; a shore.
-3
Shears; to cut herbs; reap; to regulate; put in order; talents.
-3
Name of a caustic plant; a person fifty years old.
-3
A high shore; bank of a river, eminent; the end.
-3
The sides of a high hill; a precipice; a bank.
-3
To look at with suspicion, contempt or hatred; to squint at.

Ngák.

崿-4
A high, abrupt bank.
-4
Struck with sudden surprise; astonishment.
-4
Plain, straight forward language; honest.
-4
A limit; boundary; surprise.
-4
The central parts of a flower.
-4
Alarm; fright; reverential awe; sincere.