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GLOSSARY

  • Ahmudan, office bearer; soldier.
  • Atumashi, incomparable.
  • Bilu, demon.
  • Bobabaing, ancestral land.
  • Bohozin, drum beaten to tell the hours at Mandalay Palace.
  • Byit, fringe made of dani leaves.
  • Byôn, ruby earth.
  • Chinthe, a fabulous beast.
  • Da, knife, sword
  • Dayè, hog deer.
  • Duwa, Kachin village headman.
  • Einshemin, heir apparent to the throne.
  • Gaing-dauk, assistant to a Gaing-ôk.
  • Gaing-ôk, head of a group of monasteries.
  • Gyi, (1) great; (2) barking deer.
  • Hlut-daw, council chamber.
  • Hnget-mintha, prince bird.
  • Kaba-kya, rock jumper (?)
  • Kala, western foreigner.
  • Kalaga, curtain.
  • Kazin, low mound between fields.
  • Kha, river (Kachin).
  • Kheddah, enclosure into which wild elephants are enticed.
  • Kôndan, ridge of slightly elevated land in alluvial tract.
  • Kumlao, (village) without a headman (Kachin).
  • Kumsa, (village) with a headman (Kachin).
  • Kun, betel-nut.
  • Kyaung, monastery.
  • Kyaung-myin, horse-cat.
  • Lèdaw, State land.
  • Letpet, pickled tea.
  • Min, king, lord.
  • Mi-yata, railway train.
  • Mwe-bwe, Russell's viper.
  • Myit, river (Burmese).
  • Myo, city, town, township, circle (Upper Burma).
  • Myo-ôk, township officer.
  • Myosa, ruler (lit. eater) of a myo; Shan chief of the second rank.
  • Nan, river (Shan).
  • Nats, intermediate spirits.
  • Ngapi, fish paste.
  • Ngayè, hell.
  • Ngwe kun hmu, Shan chief of the third rank.
  • Paddy, unhusked rice.
  • Parabark, a black substance used in lieu of writing paper.
  • Paso, a man's skirt.
  • Paya, (1) Lord; (2) pagoda.
  • Paya-taga, pagoda builder.
  • Pôngyi, a Buddhist monk.
  • Pwè, a theatrical performance; also other assemblies, such as a pony race, a durbar.
  • Pyathat, a terraced spire.
  • Pyogin, nursery of rice seedlings.
  • Salwè, chain.
  • Sat, sambar.
  • Saung, Kachin shawl or bedspread.
  • Sawbwa, Shan chief of first rank.
  • Shwe, golden.
  • Tagundaing, post adorned with streamers.
  • Taik, circle.
  • Tamein, a woman's skirt.
  • Taung, hill.
  • Taung ya, hill cultivation.
  • Taw-myin, jungle horse.
  • Taw-seik, jungle goat.