“pure, clean” in Sgaw Karen
ဆှံ
hshgee
pure, clean
“pure, clean” is written ဆှံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hshgee. 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
ထံကူးပ၁်လီၤသးလဲၤထီၣ်ကွၢ်ကီတၢ်ဆူအံၤဆူနုၤ ကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မူကပိာ်လိၤ ထံကူးထံၣ်လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤဖျါဆှံမး ဆှၢန့ၣ်အီၤတၢ်နံၤကမှံမၤမု၁်အသးဒိၣ်မး မုၢ်နၤခါအံၤဃံလၤမးလီၤ ထံကူးဆိမိၣ်၀ဲလၢအသးပူၤ
So he set off into the night to see what he could find. Up in the sky, Tinku saw the moon, white and round, smiling down at him. He felt very happy. ‘Night is beautiful,’ thought Tinku.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!” →ဒီးအဝဲဟးဃုတၢ်ဖိတၢ်လံၤ လၢအဖျါဆှံဒီးဖိးဟုဝဲ စဲလံဒူး ကၢလံာ်လူာ်အီၤဒီး သးဝံၣ်တၢ်လီၤ
from “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု” →