quent word, as ကောင်းမှုတည်းဟူသောမျိုးစေ့, seed-grain, which means merit, မောင်လောက်တည်းဟုအမည်ရှိသည်, he has the name of Moung Louk;—used also, in asking questions, to designate the point on which the question turns, and frequently repeated after those words or clauses, in successive questions, which are intended to be set adversatively, as အသီးဧကိုတဉ်းစားလိုသလော။ အသီးမူကိုတဉ်းစားလိုသလော, do you wish to eat cold fruit or hot? ငါ၌အပြစ်ရှိ၍တည်းနှစ်လုံးမသာရှိတော်မူသလော။ ကိုယ်တော်၌တစုံဘခုစိုးရိမ်ဘွယ်ရှိ၍တဉ်းနှစ်လုံးမသာရှိတော်မူသလော, is thy mind distressed, because there is some fault in me, or because there is some cause of concern in thee?
ပင်, even, slightly emphatic.
ဘက်, ditto,—colloquial.
မျှ, (from အမျှ, as much as,) frequently pron. မှ, used as an intensive, in negative sentences, as ဘယ်သူမျှမရှိ, there is not so much as one person, or there is not even one person; ဘဟာကိုမျှမရ, or briefly ဘာမှမရ, (he) obtains nothing at all; ရောက်သည်ကိုမျှမသိ, (he) knows not even of the arrival; sometimes expletive,
