“eye” in Sgaw Karen
မဲာ်ချံ
mẹh klee
eye
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“eye” is written မဲာ်ချံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mẹh klee. 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
အအံၤမ့ၢ်ယမဲာ်ချံ လၢအဒုးထံၣ်ယၤတၢ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
Look, these are my eyes. I can see everything with them.
from “We Are All Animals” →မီးတအဲၣ်ဒီးဃာ်ကဒါအသးမ့ၢ်လၢပျံၤကထံၣ်ခွံၢ်ကဒီး အဃိအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအပူၤ ကထံၣ်ထဲအမဲာ်ချံဖျၢၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပျံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ မီးဘၣ်တၢ်ပ၀ီၤဃာ်အီၤလၢမ့ၢ်အူ၀းတရံး
Mod was frightened of the hyena, but did not want to turn around and face the chameleon either, so she stayed hidden in the bushes. The fire came closer, and closer!
from “Mod the Toad” →