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 * 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.