“pool (of water)” in Sgaw Karen
ကွံ
kwee
pool (of water)
“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
"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.
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