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“sand” in Sgaw Karen

မဲး

meḧ

sand

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

“sand” is written မဲး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as meḧ. 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.

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This word in a story

မဲးတလဲးပှ့ၤ ယာ်လုး

Goat bought a blanket.

from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”

အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်အူးထီၣ်ဃိာ်မဲးစ့ၢ်ကီး

She also likes to make sand castles.

from “Bunty and Bubbly”

More Nature words

ကစၢၢ်mountainကပျၢၤswampကပံာ်clayကဖးembersကယဲၤfishtail palmကလံၤwindကလံၤဆူၣ်strong windကလံၤမုၢ်တွၤstorm