“root” in Sgaw Karen
အဂံၢ်
a ghee
root
“root” is written အဂံၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a ghee. 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
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” →#2 တၢ်နီၢ်နီၢ်န့ၣ် ဖီတဖီးအံၤမ့ၢ်ဖီတဖီးလၢအလီၤဆီလၢအဖီၣ်အီၣ်တၢ်ဖိဃၢ် ကနဲကျဲးစၢၤဃ့ၢ်ယူၤကွံာ်ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဂံၢ်ဘါစၢ်လီၤ ဒီးအဒံးဆ့ဘၣ်စီာ် ဒီးအမဲာ်ချံဆံးလီၤ ဆံးလီၤ ဒီးမံဘၣ်အသးန့ၣ်လီၤ
Sophy flies right into the flower's golden heart and takes a sip of the nectar. But it is bitter and makes her feel dizzy. She tries to fly away, but quickly runs out of energy. Her wings become weak and her eyes begin to close.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →