“finger” in Sgaw Karen
စုနၢ
su nuh
finger
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“finger” is written စုနၢ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as su nuh. 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
ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢနတစံးဆၢယတၢ်သံကွၢ်လဲၣ်” ဆိနၤသံကွၢ်အီၤ “စုနဲၣ်” အဝဲတဲ “စုနၢဘၣ်ဃးမတၤလဲၣ်?” ဆိနၤတဲဝဲ “နဟဲဖဲလဲၣ်?” “စုမုၢ်” အဝဲစံး
from “The Storybook Princess” →ပှၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်အဂၤတဘ့ၣ် တူးအစုနၢဒီးမူဖျၢၣ်ဒိ ယူၤထီၣ် တံတိ သံကွၢ် ရံကး ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢနဟဲလဲၣ် နတသးအုးလၢနမိၢ်ကဃုနၤဧါ “နၤတခီမီၤ” ရံကး စံးဆၢအီၤ “နဆိမိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ လၢနမိၢ်နပၢ်ကဆိမိၣ်ဝဲဒ်လဲၣ်”
from “The Amazing Adventure” →