Timo Schmitz - My Archive of Languages (2021 Edition)

Nyawm ot. Maix lie? – I’m doing fine, and you?

Hoik sawm aux. – I’m doing fine, I ate well.

Eue! – Yes!

Yuh tix lie? – What are you doing? --- Ang yuh tix. – I’m doing nothing.

phat lai, yuh lai – study

Gau maix lox vax dee mawx? – Where do you learn Wa ?

Yam in ot maix Germany? – Are you in Germany?

Ot maix dee mawx? – Where are you?

Ot maix dee mawx yam in? – Where are you now?

mawh maix pui ceu tix lei? – What’s your nationality ?, What’s your (native) country ?

Pui ot Germany lie? – Your country is Germany?

Ot aux Cing tong. – I am in Kengtung.

Ang ot – I’m not there (lit.: not there)

Tawng maix lie? – Do you understand?

Ot ka nyeix – I am at home.

Yuh maix tix yam in lei? – What are you doing right now?

aux moh maix – I love you!

aux – I

moh – love

aux kawx moh maix – I love you too!

Rhawm moh dud – I love you to death!

Mawh maix vax lie? – Are you Wa?

Sidaing cheung maix – You are very clever!

Bo pa mhawm – good night

Bawg yam keih caox khrit! – Merry Christmas!

Khritsamat – Christmas

deex maix ka paox tix – Put others in first place!

ang mawh aux pa tiiem – I didn’t write to you

tiem – write

son mawh – for you

Aux braung ka maix – I miss you !

Dex sang it – It is near to go to sleep!

it – sleep

dex – near

aux it – I sleep

ang tawng – not understand

ang doh – not understand (Chinese Wa)

ang tawng lox man – I don’t understand Burmese!

Beix hu ndee mox ? – Where do you go ? (Chinese Wa?)

Maix hu ndee mox? – Where are you going? (Chinese Wa?)

Eix hu pao! – We gotta go!

Months

khix tix – January

kix dix – January (Chinese Wa)

khix ra: – February

khix loe: – March

kix loui – March (Chinese Wa)

khix pon: – April

kix boun – April (Chinese Wa)

khix phuan: – May

khix liah – June

khix a liah – July

khix dai - August

kix ndaix – August (Chinese Wa)

khix dim: – September

kix ndim – September (Chinese Wa)

khix kao: – October

kix gao – October (Chinese Wa)

khix kao: tix – November

kix gao dix – November (Chinese Wa)

khix kao: ra: – December

kix gao ra – December (Chinese Wa)

khix gre – 2 ndlunar month

kix mgrei – 2 ndlunar month (Chinese Wa)

khix nai – 3 rdlunar month

khix jhai – 4 thlunar month

kix nqai – 4 thlunar month (Chinese Wa)

khix mu – 5 thlunar month

khix pai – 6 thlunar month

khix sao: – 7 thlunar month

khix peh – 9 thlunar month

khix taing – 10 thlunar month

khix gla – 11 thlunar month

kix mgla – 11 thlunar month (Chinese Wa)

khix glim – 12 thlunar month

kix mglim – 1th lunar month (Chinese Wa)

mai: rung – dry season

baux yam raux – wet season

mai: van – sowing season

leeih khix – first day of lunar month, new moon

Clothes

cui feuex – top-dressing (from Chinese ‘zhui fei’)

khlax – trousers, pants

khlax do diang – a kind of trousers worn by children who do not know how to go to toilet yet, not to be confused with diapers (a kind of trousers with a hole for pee)

khlax dawd – shorts

sibex – shirt

si nbei – shirt (Chinese Wa)

sibex jhup – a kind of sweater

si nbei nqub – a kind of sweater (Chinese Wa)

sibex lang: taix – long-sleeved shirt

sibex lauh – T-shirt

sibex rongyi – sweatshirt

sibex tai – probably a kind of cotton shirt or cotton clothing

dai – skirt

Body parts

hauk – hair

ngai – eye

hauk ngai – eyebrow

meeih – nose

dod – mouth

jheeh – mouth

hauk jheeh – moustache

naok – chest, brest

caong – leg

khawn: taix – hand

plah caong – foot

siang plah caong – foot bone

plawng: twag – arm

plawng: taix – wrist

greem: klaik – underarm

hauk klaik – hairs of underarm

doh jhong: deem – vagina

cex – vagina

klix – penis

hauk cex – female pubic hair

hauk klix – male pubic hair

Politics and Geography(-related)

meung – land, state

meung vax – Wa-State

ai gox ju yi – patriotism (from Chinese ‘aiguo zhuyi’)

khawx ta – enlarge, expand

Sitang Meung Vax – Wa-State News (News program in Wabang)

sitang – news

jung pui – world

loux – language

gau lox vax – learn Wa language (lox is synonym to loux)

gau tawx – teach

lox rhax – song

lox rhax meung vax – Song of Wa-State

Ex moh been rub rum meung vax – We love the Wa State public gatherings

been – law, policy, principle

rub rum – gathering

Meung ot ex vax – The country I am in is the Wa’s, We are in Wa-State!

rhawn moh meung vax – I love you Wa-State, Be in love with Wa-State

rhawn moh aux – I love you!

Leng vax – Wa Song

lieng ex vax – Song in Wa language

lox leng vax – Wa language song

lox lieng ex vax – Song in Wa language

meung miex – home country

meung man – Myanmar

Meung Hawx – China (used by Burmese Wa)

Congkawx – China (used by Chinese Wa)

Lox rah cad ceu pui Vax – Wa national anthem

Hong Cing – Red Army

viex: son: – representative

cao pau: kaing: – service person, the one who is in charge

Miien Vu – Yi nationality

num: keh: – date of birth

akhwang – authority

lox haktiex – local dialect

Cing Tung – Kentung

Peux Cing – Beijing

Ying: Nang: – Yunnan

Lax Siou – Lashio

Ang Vax – the traditional area of the Wa (安佤)

Kawnmau – Yancheng Town

Klawngpa – Kalaungpa Town

Meung Ka – Mongkar

Meung Lun – Menglun

Namla – Nanla

Simoung – Ximeng

Sipaw/ Sibox – Hsipaw

Kaung Siiem: – Shan State

rawm – water

rawm sigritsigra – ocean

rawm hai yang – ocean, sea (from Chinese ‘haiyang’)

kao: cong: – high school (from Chinese ‘gaozhong’)

ce – town (loan word from Shan)

nhawng – lake (loan word form Shan)

Going to toilet

caong lawng – toilet

nyiex aing – toilet

nyiex phrai – toilet

nyiex mong – toilet

nyiex moung – toilet (Chinese Wa)

nyiex rawm – toilet

nyiex rom – toilet (Chinese Wa)

lawg khoek taix – toilet room

lawg heem – wash room, bathroom

hu phrai tix – to go to toilet

aing – (verb) to go to toilet, to poop, to defecate; (noun) poo, poop

neem – pee

aing neem – pee and poo

neem phrai – pee and poo

rawm: neem – urine

rom neem – urine (Chinese Wa)

phrai – (verb) to go to the toilet; (noun) faeces and urine

fang – (verb) to defecate; (noun) faeces

cawg lawng – toilet

hu: cawg lawng – to go to toilet

Random words

kheu – because

jao: nan – therefore

viang – though, anyways

ku dah kuh dee – everywhere

gu ndaeh gu ndee – everywhere (Chinese Wa)

ti ceu – actually

khawm mawh: nan – but

mai: - and

dee: mhawm – (at) best

mhai chawk – question particle

hmai qog – question particle (Chinese Wa)

aleuh!, ayo! – wow!

Paw sax chawk – never ask, no need to ask

gie: raoh – gratuity, money as a gift

chix – can, may, acceptable

jix – can (Chinese Wa)

ang jix – cannot (Chinese Wa)

alo – will, purpose