“cat” in Sgaw Karen
သၣ်မံညီၤ
thà mee nyāw
cat
Confirmed by a Karen speaker.
“cat” is written သၣ်မံညီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thà mee nyāw. 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
ဝံသးစူၤတဲဘၣ် စၤကၠူ လၢ ဘီၣ်သိၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲသၣ်မံညီၤအဒူၣ်အထၢ ပအိၣ်ဒီးစုမ့ၣ်လၢအစူဒိၣ်မးလီၤ
Please tell Sanju that the tiger is from our cat family. We have sharp claws.
from “Clean Cat” →ဟဲမၤလိတၢ်ကတိၤလၢအသီတဖၣ်ဘၣ်သကိး တၢ်ဖိဒံးဖိဃၢ်မ့ၢ်တမ့ၢ်ထိၣ်အကလုၢ် ဘၣ်တၢ်ကိးအမံၤဒၣ်ဝဲ နသ့ၣ်ညါခဲလၢၥ်ပှဲၤဖျၢၣ်လဲၣ် စိးဝၣ်ဃးကိးကါကါ သၣ်မံညီၤကိးမံဧီၤမံဧီၤ
LET US LEARN SOME NEW WORDS. The sound that each animal or bird makes, has a special name.How many of these do you know? A crow caws. A cat mews.
from “Noisy Crows” →