“bear (animal)” in Sgaw Karen
ယိး
yoḧ
bear (animal)
“bear (animal)” is written ယိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yoḧ. 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
အိ ယဖံဧၢ! ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မးလီၤ! ယဖံထံၣ်န့ၢ်က့ၤယၤ ယယိ- ယိး လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိၣ်မးလံန့ၣ်လီၤ
Oh Granny! Thank you so much! You have found my dear yo-yo!
from “Lost and Found” →"ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတအိၣ်တ့ၢ်ဂဲၤကလံၢ်နတဘျီ" ကသ့ၣ်ယီစံးကွၢ်အီၤဖဲးအယိးဃာ်တၢ်ဒၢ "ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတမၤတၢ်မၤကၢ်ဃၢလၢအကဲးဘျုးလဲၢ်"
"Why don’t you stop dancing?" asks Donkey, carrying his buckets. "Why can’t you do something useful instead?"
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →