“knife” in Sgaw Karen

ဒီ

daw

knife

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“knife” is written ဒီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as daw. 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

ပှၤဒီသကီးသၢဂၤဒီးလိးတီငါက့ၤဆူဟံၣ်
The three friends went home in a taxi.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ်ဆဲးကပီၤလီၤဒီနၤ ထံကူးမံမုာ်ဒီနၤစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bright round moon shone all night long, spreading her calm light all around. And Tinku slept all through the night!
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”

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