“mushroom” in Sgaw Karen
ကုၤ
kū
mushroom
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“mushroom” is written ကုၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kū. 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
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?” →အအံၤမ့ၢ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ် သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤ အဂံၢ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ပူၤ ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ
Here is a tree. The tree is on the ground. Its roots are in the soil. And green grass grows all around. And green grass grows all around.
from “The Tree” →