“body; self” in Sgaw Karen
နီၢ်
naw̱
body; self
“body; self” is written နီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as naw̱. 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
ကဆီထံအိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဖဲန့ၣ် ဟးလိၣ်ကွဲးဒီးအီၣ်နီၢ်လါဟ့လီၤ
Hippo was there too, going for a stroll and eating some nice green grass.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →တုၤပပာ်လီၤပသးလၢတၢ်ယူၤထံဘၣ်ကတၢၢ်၀ဲအံၤလီၤ ပထံၣ်ဘၣ်ညၢ်ကညီအီၣ်နီၢ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီး
And just when we thought this dive couldn’t possibly get any better, we sighted a dugong grazing on some sea grass.
from “Dive!” →