“rope” in Sgaw Karen

ပျံၤ

plēe

rope

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

“rope” is written ပျံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as plēe. 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

ကိလူပျံၤဝဲဒီးစံၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ အခီၣ်ဘီၣ်လဲၤတူာ်လူာ်ဆူဘးန့ၣ်
Golu ran away scared.
from “Playtime”
ပဒဲသးခု လၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ် တုၤခဲအံၤ ကဆီထံတအိၣ်ယံၤဒီးထံလၢၤဘၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢၤအပျံၤမ့ၢ်အူ
Rabbit was happy that Hippo's hair was burned. And to this day, for fear of fire, the hippo never goes far from the water.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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