“slippery, smooth” in Sgaw Karen
ဘျ့
blay
slippery, smooth
“slippery, smooth” is written ဘျ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as blay. 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
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” →"မိမိၢ်တၢ်တခါအံၤန့ၣ်အမ့ၢ်တၢ်မနုလဲၣ်?" အမိၢ်စံးဆၢအီၤ "အမ့ၢ်ဃီလၢပှၤထိၣ်ဘျ့လီၤသး" ထူမံးသံကွၢ်အမိၢ် "မ့ၢ်ယလဲၤထီၣ်ဂဲၤကသ့ဧါ" အမိၢ်စံးဆၢအီၤ "သ့ဝဲသၢၣ်"
from “ထူမံးလဲၤလၢတၢ်ဟးကသုၣ်အလီၢ်” →