“mirror” in Sgaw Karen
မဲာ်ထံကလၤ
Mẹh htee ga lā
mirror
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“mirror” is written မဲာ်ထံကလၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as Mẹh htee ga lā. 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
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယတနၢ်ဟူအကလုၢ်ဘၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအဝဲအိၣ်လၢမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤလီၤ
But I cannot hear her voice. My friend lives inside the mirror.
from “My Best Friend” →တိတိးဟံးထီၣ်မဲာ်ထံကလၤပီၤကွၢ်တၢ်ဖျါလၢအယံၤ ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်သကုၤကံကျိကပၤ မ့ၢ်ကိကိးအိၣ်လၢထံ၀ၢ်အဂၤတကပၤဧါ
Toto whipped out his field glasses. He scanned the area across the river. Was Gogo on the other side?
from “Where is Gogo?” →