“herd, flock” in Sgaw Karen
ဒီဖု
daw hpu
herd, flock
“herd, flock” is written ဒီဖု in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as daw hpu. 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
ဒီးဖဲမုၢ်ကလီၤနုာ်အကတီၢ်န့ၣ် ကနဲတဖၣ်အိၣ်ကတီၢ်လၢတၢ်ဃုအီၣ်တၢ်ဆၢထံ ဒီးဆိကမိၣ်ဝဲလၢ စိဖံက့ၤကတုၤလၢအတၢ်အိၣ်တၢ်ဆိးလီၢ် ဒီးကနဲဒီဖုယူၤလီၤဖးဒီးအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
Meanwhile, the swarm finishes collecting nectar as the sun sets. But no one can find Sophy. They know she always flies ahead of the group, so decide she must have gone back to the hive alone. The bees head home without her.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →