“horse” in Sgaw Karen
ကသ့ၣ်
ga thày
horse
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“horse” is written ကသ့ၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga thày. 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
"ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတအိၣ်တ့ၢ်ဂဲၤကလံၢ်နတဘျီ" ကသ့ၣ်ယီစံးကွၢ်အီၤဖဲးအယိးဃာ်တၢ်ဒၢ "ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတမၤတၢ်မၤကၢ်ဃၢလၢအကဲးဘျုးလဲၢ်"
"Why don’t you stop dancing?" asks Donkey, carrying his buckets. "Why can’t you do something useful instead?"
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →ကဆီထံဃ့၀ံသးစူပဒဲ ယ၀ံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ
Hippo apologised to Rabbit, "I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you. Please forgive me!" But Rabbit wouldn’t listen and he shouted at Hippo, "You did that on purpose! Someday, you’ll see! You’re going to pay!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →