“drip” in Sgaw Karen

လီၤစီၤ

lāw sāw

drip

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

“drip” is written လီၤစီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lāw sāw. 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

ကဆီထံအသးတမုာ်လၢဘၣ် အသးတမုာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ်တုဒၣ်လဲၢ်လၢအဂဲကလံၢ်တထီၣ်လၢဘၣ် အ၀ဲဒၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢလၢၢ်ခိၣ်ဒီးဟီၣ်၀ဲဒၣ် အမဲာ်ထံၤယွၤလီၤလၢအဘီးပါ လီၤစီၤလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်
Hippo is sad. She is too sad to dance. She sits on a rock and cries. The tears roll down her cheeks and fall on the ground.
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”
ယအဲၣ်ဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ထံထဲးတဖျၢၣ်ဖိ ထဲးဒၣ်အဟဲၤလီၤစီၤလၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်လိၤသနာ်က့
from “How Ant Saved Dove”

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