“old, ancient” in Sgaw Karen
လၢပျၢၤ
luh plūh
old, ancient
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“old, ancient” is written လၢပျၢၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as luh plūh. 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
အပၢ်စးထီၣ်တဲယုၤအီၤလၢအသီတယုၢ် “လၢပျၢၤတၢ်တဲဝဲဒၣ်တဘျီ ပီၣ်လဲၣ်ဒီးထံပူၤဃ့ထီ စိးဝၣ်ဃးလဲၤဃုအီထံ ဒီးထံၣ်ထံဒၢတဖျၢၣ်ထံအိၣ်လၢအပူၤဖးဖီ ဒီးအီဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤfrom “The Storybook Princess”ဒီးဖးတၢ်လၢပျၢၤတနံၤဒီးတနံၤ ဒ်သိး ဒူး-ဒူးအဂၤတဖၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအလီၤဆီန့ၢ်နၤဒီးယၤ ဒီးမုၢ်ဆါန့ၣ် အဝဲမံ စိလံ ဒူး ဆိကမိၣ်တၢ်သ့ ဒီးအလိၤနၢသံ, အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်ဖးလဲၢ်အါန့ၢ် တၢ်လုၢ်ထံလုၢ်နိန့ၣ်လီၤfrom “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု”