“swim” in Sgaw Karen

ပီၢ်ထံ

paw htee

swim

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

“swim” is written ပီၢ်ထံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as paw htee. 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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ထိးအီၣ်တၢ်သ့,ညၣ်ဖိပီၢ်ထံသ့,သၣ်မံၤညီခွ့ၤတၢ်သ့...ဒီးယနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဖးလံၥ်သ့န့ၣ်လီၤ!
Pigs can eat, fish can swim, cats can jump... and I can read!
from “Can and Can't”
ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!”

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