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“bamboo container” in Sgaw Karen

ပီၤ

paw̄

bamboo container

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“bamboo container” is written ပီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as paw̄. 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

ဒီးတၢ်တနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဟဲကပီၤထီၣ် ဒီးလါဖိန့ၣ်ထံၣ်ဝဲယခိၣ်မီၣ် အိၣ်ထီဃာ်လၢချၢဒ့လိၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
Later that night, the moon came up. It looked at my cap on the old Pipal tree.
from “The Moon and the Cap”
တိတိးဟံးထီၣ်မဲာ်ထံကလၤပီၤကွၢ်တၢ်ဖျါလၢအယံၤ ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်သကုၤကံကျိကပၤ မ့ၢ်ကိကိးအိၣ်လၢထံ၀ၢ်အဂၤတကပၤဧါ
Toto whipped out his field glasses. He scanned the area across the river. Was Gogo on the other side?
from “Where is Gogo?”

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