“fishing net” in Sgaw Karen
ပှာ်
phgạ
fishing net
“fishing net” is written ပှာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phgạ. 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
ထိၣ်ပှာ်နကသိၣ်လိယၤလၢတၢ်ဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့ဧါ ခါအးသံကွၢ်ထိၣ်ပှာ် ထိၣ်ပှာ်စံး၀ဲသ့သၢၣ် မၤဒ်ယမၤအသိး ခါအးသလၣ်အမဲၢ်ဆူၣ် အ၀ဲခါအခီၣ်ချးတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်
"Peacock, will you give me dance lessons?" asked Kaage, when she had found him. "Sure," said the peacock. "Just do as I do." Kaage spread her tail feathers. She stepped in time.
from “The Generous Crow” →အ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ
This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.
from “Mod the Toad” →