“sky” in Sgaw Karen

မူခိၣ်

moo kòh

sky

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

“sky” is written မူခိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as moo kòh. 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

ယဘၣ်ယသးလၢယကယူၤထီၣ်ထီ လၢမူခိၣ်ဒ်သိးကဘီယူၤ
I love to fly up in the sky, like a plane.
from “Noisy Crows”
ဒံနိးအဝဲ အဲၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်ဝံၣ်သးဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီး! စီၤကါကးဒီး ဒံနိး သးဝံၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံၣ် တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ ဟဲအိၣ်ယၤတက့ၢ်! ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢမူခိၣ်ထံတက့ၢ်!
Dinoo likes the song too! Kaka and Dinoo sing and dance. Come to me, clouds! Give me your rain!
from “Sing in the Rain”

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