P06 · Week 5 · Lesson

P06 · Honey and the Bear

ya-family continued; neuter u-stem

Draft · in review

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Corresponds to Perry Lesson VI(§131–137)＝ SKT บทที่ 6. Low-friction lesson: the "lengthened" roots of the ya-family(śam→śāmyati type)＋ neuter u-stem(madhu type: subject case＝object case＝bare form). The story opens the "honey thread"(madhu→bear→P07 thief); all sandhi follows rules already learned, zero new ⚠.

① AnchorA cognate hiding in Thai — recognise it first, then learn its form0. Anchor(5 minutes)

"Three claims: มธุ (Thai: "honey") ← madhu — มธุรส (Thai: "sweet juice / sweet flavor") ＝ madhu＋rasa, the มธุ is right there;
เนตร (Thai: "eye") ← netra —
you decoded it in the L0 Decoder Race; today it enters a sentence;
มุข (Thai: "face, vestibule") ← mukha.
There's one more hiding in an old friend: ศานติ/สันติ (Thai: "peace") has root śam(to calm down)— today it appears as a verb: śāmyati."

② StoryA micro-story you can follow, with only one new form1. Story(CI micro-narrative — Honey and the Bear)

๑

कुमारः मधु पश्यति।

kumāraḥ madhu paśyati.

The boy sees honey.

๒

किम् इच्छसि

Teacher asks

What do you want?

๓

मधु मधु इच्छामि।

madhu, madhu — icchāmi!

Honey, honey — I want it!

๔

ऋक्षः मधु इच्छति।

ṛkṣaḥ madhu icchati!

(But)the bear wants honey too!

๕

कुमारः न तुष्यति।

kumāraḥ na tuṣyati.

The boy is not happy.

(Sentences ๓ and ๔ form a demonstration pair: the comma in ๓ is a deliberate pause — where there is a pause, sandhi does not apply; ๔ has no pause, so madhu＋icchati fuses into madhv icchati(u before a different vowel becomes v). Vowel sandhi is covered in the W5 crystallization lesson; for now, just listen, don't write.)

③ Sentence-buildingBuild it sentence by sentence from words you already have2. Sentence-building(MT track)

"Two new actions, both ya-family: tuṣyati(he is pleased)→ 'I am pleased'?" (tuṣyāmi)
"śāmyati(he calms down)— listen carefully: the root is śam; when it enters the ya-family, it lengthens: śām-ya-ti.
That long śān- sound in ศานติ (Thai: "peace") and what you hear here are exactly the same thing."
"New word madhu(honey)is neuter: subject case＝object case＝madhu bare form — same family as vāri, no extra work."

Sentence-building chain: tuṣyati → na tuṣyati → kumāraḥ na tuṣyati → ṛkṣaḥ madhu icchati → kumāro madhu paśyati(sandhi).

Building block(use-first, analyze-later): iti(quotation particle — marks "end of quoted speech," placed after the cited words).

kumāraḥ "madhu icchāmi" iti vadati(The boy says: "I want honey.")

(iti is the very word Thai speakers chant every day in อิติปิโส (Thai: the opening of the Itivuttaka formula, อิติปิ โส ภะคะวา…) — "thus, so." It frames the quoted words and is placed after them. RSS frequency 3.3%. See 積木層研究-高頻即用塊.)

④ DripGrammar one line at a time; the full table comes at the crystallization lesson3. In-line drip-feed(four points)

Listen4. Listening(audio list)

▶ audioAudio checklist for this lesson — placeholders in the preview; the live version uses pre-baked Matcha audio + real recordings (played when logged in, not hot-linked).

Both versions of the five story sentences; clips: śāmyati slow read of the long ā vs śam root; madhu／vāri comparison(neuter twins); ṛkṣo madhu(recycled); madhu 🔇icchati↔madhv🔇 icchati(listening only).

Use5. Use(exercises)

ya-family relay: tuṣ/śām/paś × three persons(recast).

Neuter claim: swap madhu/vāri into P04 story sentences("The boy wants honey" — oral rearrangement).

Listening discrimination: where is the long ā?(śāmyati/mādyati vs gacchati/icchati, five examples)

Decoder recycling: เนตร←netra, มุข←mukha(both in this lesson's Perry wordlist); live decomposition of มธุรส as madhu＋rasa.

kośa intakeThis lesson's words enter your personal word-store6. kośa (personal word-store)(this lesson's entries)

Word cards: tuṣ(→tuṣyati pleased), śam(→śāmyati calmed; root of ศานติ (Thai: "peace")), madhu मधु(honey; มธุ (Thai: "honey")), netra नेत्र(eye; เนตร (Thai: "eye")), mukha मुख(face; มุข (Thai: "face, hall")), ṛkṣa ऋक्ष(bear — story character card). Building-block card: iti("thus, so," quotation marker — placed after the cited speech; cognate with อิติปิโส (Thai: iti in the Itivuttaka formula)).

Crystallization linkCrystallization link

→ W5 Crystallization Lesson II(closing P4–7): full comparison table of a/i/u three stem-types ＋ neuter group(phala/vāri/madhu)＋ verb class 1/4/6/10 comparison ＋ brief summary of the three visarga families.

Platform-layer metadata ＋ L3 verification recordPlatform-layer metadata ＋ L3 verification record

Lexical items: tuṣ(4), śam(4·lengthened type), madhu, netra, mukha, ṛkṣa, akṣa — cross-checked against Perry vocabulary list VI(mad/bhram/vyadh not included in this lesson).
Form verification: tuṣyati/tuṣyāmi, śāmyati(§131 lengthened; mad is the same-type exception), kumāro madhu(-as series visarga＋voiced consonant→o, §118), ṛkṣo madhv icchati(u＋different vowel→v, §157—listening only), madhu neuter nom=acc — cross-checked against Perry §131–137; sentence ๓ pause blocking sandhi. Recycled: iṣ/icchati(entered kośa at P03).
Building-block layer: iti(use-first analyze-later, quotation marker; Thai cognate อิติปิโส; RSS frequency 3.3%).
Red-line self-check: no prohibited numerals; classroom oral register uses "ya-family" and "lengthened type"; technical terminology kept in teacher's notes.
[ ] Four-gate verification — not yet passed, status remains draft