“for the sake of” in Sgaw Karen
ဂီၢ်
ghaw̱
for the sake of
“for the sake of” is written ဂီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ghaw̱. 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
ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢဟံၣ်ပူၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲယဂီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢပှၤဟုလၣ်န့ၣ်ဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်ဧါ?
The best chair in the house is for me. But sitting on the lap is even better, isn’t it?
from “Clean Cat” →တၢ်ပလုၢ်တနီၤနီၤဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါပှၤလၢ "ပိာ်ယခံ တၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီအိၣ်ဖဲအံၤအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်" လီၤ
One kind of smell says, "Follow me this way for a feast."
from “Busy Ants” →