Meitei (Manipuri)
names 7objects 6ISO 639-3 mni
Spoken in Manipur.
tribal 6 · borrowed 1
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| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| ꯊꯋꯥꯟꯃꯤꯆꯥꯛ thawānmicāk | 'Star' as a word | — | tribal |
| ꯁꯖꯤꯛ sajik | Figures with no secure modern identification | — | tribal |
| ꯁꯡꯒꯥꯏꯁꯦꯟ sanggāisen | Meteors and shooting stars | — | tribal |
| ꯊꯋꯥꯟꯃꯤꯆꯥꯛ ꯃꯊꯤ thawānmicāk mathi | Meteors and shooting stars | 'star-faeces' Sharma prints the morphological analysis himself: thawanmicak 'star' + mathi 'faeces'. | tribal |
| ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ ꯇꯨꯔꯦꯜ ningthou turel | The Milky Way | 'the king's river' Sharma gives the morphology: ningthou 'king' + turel 'stream'. | tribal |
| ꯈꯣꯡꯖꯣꯝꯅꯨꯕꯤ khongjomnubi | The Pleiades | — | tribal |
| ꯙ꯭ꯔꯨꯕꯇꯥꯔꯥ dhrubatarā | The pole star | — | borrowed |
Sources
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. thawānmicāk, p. 86 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. sajik, p. 189 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. sanggāisen, p. 188 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. thawānmicāk mathi, p. 86 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. ningthou turel, p. 105 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. khongjomnubi, p. 54 link
- H. Surmangol Sharma, Learners' Manipuri-English Dictionary (Imphal, 2006), s.v. dhrubatarā, p. 97 link