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“pool (of water)” in Sgaw Karen

ကွံ

kwee

pool (of water)

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

“pool (of water)” is written ကွံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kwee. 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

အအံၤမ့ၢ်ပမဲၢ်လၢအလီၤအဲၣ် လီၤကွံ
Now see, these are our lovely tails.
from “We Are All Animals”
"အကွံလီၤသ့ အခွ့ထီၣ်ခွ့လီၤသ့ အတရံးသးသ့ ဘျးလီၤစဲဟူးဝးသ့ ဟးဟါ ဟံးဟံး"ယဖံနံၤထီၣ် ခံးခံး န့ၣ်လီၤ
"It can sway, it can bounce. It can spin, it can dangle. Ha-ha, hee-hee," said Granny with a giggle.
from “Lost and Found”

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