VOCABULARY

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Thado.
Ngai   	
Ngoi   	
Ngoi   	
Ni      	
Ni      	
Noi	
Norn   ...    ...
Nau-shen   ..,
Nu      	
Nunga
Nunga..,
Ole ...
Pa
Pa-gong
Pasal ...
Paten ...    .
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Pe       ...    .
Pengpulep ,
Phai
Pho
Phung ,
Phut   ..
PL.
PL.
Po
Pol
Pon
Pu

English.
To be customary ,..
Fishing weir	
Mad, foolish	
Sun, day	
Aunt      	
To laugh	
To wish	
Baby      	
Mother,    female
suffix.
After, behind
Girl	
Alligator       	
Father,    and   male
suffix
A widower    	
A male   	
The creator  	
To give	
Butterfly       	
Level      	
To dry in the sun...
Clan	
To place upright in
the ground	
Grandmother
Feminine suffix for
animals.
Suffix     denoting
great.
To carry	
Straw     	
Cloth      	
Grandfather	

Lushai and Remarks.
Ngai; has many meanings.
Ngoi.
Ngol-tawt, obstinate, uncontrollable.
Manipuri, Ngaoba.
Ni.    In all Chin and Old Kuki dia-
lects and in Manipuri, we have.
Ni; also in most Old Kuki dialects.
Nui.     Manipuri,   Nokpa;    Beteh,
Inui.
Nuam, contracted into Norn.
Nau-shen.
Nu, in nearly all these dialects.
Appears in Manipuri in Nupi,
woman, and "I cha nupi," my child
female—t.e., daughter. Nupi is
especially interesting because it
combines both the Lushai female
suffixes Nu and Pui.
Nunga. Most dialects very similar.
Of. Manipuri, Back, Namgan.
Nula.
Awle.   Beteh, Ove.
Pa, in all these dialects and Mani-
puri.
Parol; note the change of g into r.
Pasal, a husband;  Pasal-tha (man
good),  a brave man, hero.    The
word is used for man in several
Old Kuki dialects.
Pathian.  With very slight variations
common to all these clans except
Manipuris.
Pe.    Very similar terms in all these
dialects.    Manipuri, Piba.
Phengphehlep; Beteh Phelep.   The
Lushai may be Pheng, flat; Phe-
phe, to move; Hlep, a slice.
Phei.
Pho.    In Manipuri the word has the
same  meaning   and   also   means
paddy.
Phung-chang, fellow-clansman.
Phun.
Pi.
Pui. Found in many Old Kuki dia-
lects. In Manipuri, *'bi" is the
feminine termination of adjectives.
Pui. Common in one form or other
to nearly all these dialects.
Paw, to carry on the back.
Pawl.
Puan. The word in Chin and nearly
all Old Kuki dialects is either the
same or very similar.
Pu; and in Manipuri and all Chin
and Old Kuki dialects. The word
has also other meanings, such as
maternal uncle.