“hammock” in Sgaw Karen
စုာ်
sụ
hammock
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“hammock” is written စုာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as sụ. 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
ဂ့ၤလၢပပာ်တၢ်အိၣ်စီၤမုၤလိာ်လူဒ်သိးပကပူၤဖျဲးဒီးညၢ်အံၤအဆုၢ်လၢအလီၢ်ခံအိၣ်ဒီအစုာ်လၢအၢဒိၣ်မး
It’s a good thing we kept a safe distance from this lionfish. The spines on his back can be quite poisonous!
from “Dive!” →တၢ်နီၢ်ကီၢ်မ့ၢ်ပလီဖီးစလဲန်တဖျၢာ်ဃီလၢဒံၣ်ဒူၣ်ဖိကိးဂၤစုာ်လီၤသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲလၢအပူၤပာ်ဖံအနီလၢအမဲဘီဒီးသူလၢအသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲကၢကီာ်လိာ်သးဒီးအမဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
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