“bamboo container” in Sgaw Karen
ပီၤ
paw̄
bamboo container
“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?” →