
Chiang - city or township in northern Thailand
Saen - 100,000
Si-yaak, saam yaak, ha yaak - road intersections, 4,3 & 5 ways.
Phra - (Pra) monk, religious leader (Phra Jao)
Wat - a Tai Buddhist temple
Nat - a spirit with influence over some area of Burma
Songkran - Tai world New Year's water festival, Bhraministic
Songkhram - war (Chai Songkhram, to use war victoriously)
Nam Thuam - a flood
Mahatevi - a Shan queen
Pi'i - spirits of the Tai world, ghosts
Tong - leaf, bannana leaf
Pi'i Tong Luang - yellow banna-leaf spirits, people who flit away and disappear as soon as the leaf roof of their sleeping cover loses its green color
Reusi or Leusi - a monk of the woods, such as the one who nutured Pra Rama's Sita when she was but a baby.
Si-yaak, saam yaak, ha yaak - road intersections, 4, 3 & 5 ways.