“skin, peel” in Sgaw Karen
အဘ့ၣ်
a bày
skin, peel
“skin, peel” is written အဘ့ၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a bày. 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
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
from “The Race” →အ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ
This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.
from “Mod the Toad” →