“sharp, pointed” in Sgaw Karen
စူ
soo
sharp, pointed
“sharp, pointed” is written စူ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as soo. 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
မ့ၢ်ဧါ နထံၣ်ပစုမ့ၢ်ခီၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢအစူဒီးအ့ၣ်လံဧါ
Really? Have you seen our sharp claws?
from “We Are All Animals” →ဝံသးစူၤတဲဘၣ် စၤကၠူ လၢ ဘီၣ်သိၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲသၣ်မံညီၤအဒူၣ်အထၢ ပအိၣ်ဒီးစုမ့ၣ်လၢအစူဒိၣ်မးလီၤ
Please tell Sanju that the tiger is from our cat family. We have sharp claws.
from “Clean Cat” →