“above, on top” in Sgaw Karen
ဖီခိၣ်
hpaw kòh
above, on top
“above, on top” is written ဖီခိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpaw kòh. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found” →အ၀ဲနၢ်ဟူကပီယူၤ မီးကွၢ်ထီၣ်ဆူမူကပိာ်လိး တၢ်မနုၤအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်လဲၣ် အ၀ဲသံကွၢ်ယၤ ပှၤတစံးဆၢအီၤနီဆဂၤဘၣ် အသးဒ့ဒီမ့ၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ကိၣ်လိၣ်တဖၣ်ကတိၤသကိးတၢ်စ့ၢ်ဧါ
She heard the sound of an airplane. Mod looked up into the sky. "What is up there?" she asked. "I wonder if the clouds are talking." But no one answered her.
from “Mod the Toad” →