melanin; skin pigment

April

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] Monsieur

[elephants] [is] in musth

to talk (e.g., on the telephone) [from "mouth"]; chat; gossip

minor wife; mistress

just now

[beginning a paragraph of verse] then;...; meanwhile;...; next;...

just a little while ago; just now

[เมืองนอก] [is] foreign

[แม่กด] the third of the "Eight Word Ending Protocols" in Thai grammar, the "-d" and "-t" sound at the end of a syllable, a dead ending [see notes]

[แม่เตาไฟ] a wood-burning fireplace for cooking; fireplace; hearth

[แม่น้ำแม่โขง] Mekong (river); the 11th longest river in the world, defining the border between Thailand/Laos and Thailand/Cambodia

wealthy widow

stapler

[แมงแลง] the tooth-decay bacteria, Lactobacillus or Streptococcus mutans

Maryland [state of the United States]

Mae Hong Son, a province in northern Thailand with a 1995 population of 212,928 (rank 72 of 76)

[the first element of a compound word] [see โมหะ]

[ไม่ควร] [auxiliary verb combination] ought not to...

[will] not sit by idly and accept [his] fate

[ไม่ใช่] not; is not

[ไม่ได้มี] <subject> didn't have

[ไม่ต้องทำ] <subject> doesn't have to do

[is] inexcusable; unpardonable; unjustifiable; unforgiveable

[is] mute; unable to speak

<subject> has no reason to

not so bad

[ไม่เห็น] don't see; to not see

[ไม้กระยาเลย] hardwood; timber