“grandchild” in Sgaw Karen
လံၤ
leē
grandchild
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“grandchild” is written လံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as leē. 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
"ပလီၢ်နသးစ့ၢ်ကၢ် နဘူးကတချးဘၣ်ယၤလံၤ"ယုၢ်မံခဲးထဲးထီၣ်၀ဲၤဖဲးအဒုးလုၢ်အဖိၤအထံအခါ လဲၤဂဲကလံလၢကၢ်ဃၢန့ၣ်
"Be careful! You nearly kicked me!" says Meerkat, bathing his babies. "Go dance somewhere else."
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →ကဆီထံစးထီၣ်ကိီးဒီးကၠံာ်ဃုထံ အဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်လၢာ်လံၤ ကဆီထံဟီၣ်၀ဲဒံး မ့ၢ်အူအီၣ်ယဆူၣ် ယဆူၣ်ဟါမၢ်လၢာ်လံၤ ယဆူၣ်ဂ့ၤဂ့ၤ
Hippo started to cry and ran for the water. All her hair was burned off by the fire. Hippo kept crying, "My hair has burned in the fire! My hair is all gone! My beautiful hair!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →