The Study of Tai Yai Vegetables’Name in Mueang Pon Village, Mueang Pon Subdistrict, Khun Yuam District, Mae Hong Son Province

Abstract

The study of Tai Yai Vegetables’ name in Ban Muang Pon, Tambon Muang Pon , Khun Yuam District, Mae Hong Son Province The aim of  study grammatical characteristics, names of local vegetables in Tai Yai language  Ban Muang Pon, Tambon Muang Pon , Khun Yuam District, Mae Hong Son Province  by surveying and gathering information of local vegetables between November 2018 to February 2019, found a total of 115 types of  local vegetables. Analysing  the grammatical characteristics of local vegetables name in Tai Yai.  Found that  there were 4 parts in the names of the local vegetables in the grammatical system ; the words (specify plant groups), (the unit of words indicate plant groups), core name, and (the expand words plants). The core name is the part that must always appeared  to classify plants, but the words specify plant groups, the unit of words indicate plant groups, and the expand words plants may appear with or without core name. the core name may have a word structure, which can be either or basic words, compound words, doublet words and synthetic nouns. The words specify plant groups is independent word units used to indicate which plants have distinctive characteristics, found in 3 aspects: general words specify plant groups, component words specify plant groups, and function words specify plant groups can appear at all three groups which, if more than one group appears, usually arranged in sequence. The unit of words indicate plant groups will be different from the words specify plant groups in which the unit of words indicate plant groups is not an independent word units and cannot appear solely, found 2 groups are the unit of words indicate fruit groups and the unit of words indicate amount groups.

In addition, the culture of each type of local vegetables is also found in Tai Yai people. That can be categorized by each part that we eat as follows,  flower 14  types,  Tuber crop (root) 13 types, Top 33 types, Result 30 types, Trunk 11 types, Seed 2 types, Trunk-top 7 types, Result - Top 4 typea, Trunk- flower 1 typea, In observalion, Tai – Yai people usually consune that fresh, blanched, boileb or eating with chilipaste such as Namprik – plara, Namprik – som, Namprik – Nork, Namprik – Aong or Namprik – Oup. Moreover, that canbe cooked in Tai – Yai food recipes such as Oup, Jor, sa, hoong etc. Which the recipe of Thai yai food from indigenous crops. Still popular for consumpticn. In abbitien, It’s used in Varions ritnals. Fried category influenced from Central region.