“to be full” in Sgaw Karen
ပှဲၤ
phgeh̄
to be full
“to be full” is written ပှဲၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phgeh̄. 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
ဒီးနၤတနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဒီးယၤပကကၢၣ်ထီၣ်သကိးခိၣ်မီၣ်ဒီးနံၤကမှံၤထီၣ် ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးမုၣ်လီၤ
That night, both the moon and I wore our caps and smiled. We were happy.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →တၢၢ်အနီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်လိၢ်ဘၣ်၀ဲၤလၢတၢ်ဖးတၢ်အီၣ်လီၤပှဲၤ၀ဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးတၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ဃုတၢ်အီၣ်တုၤန့ၣ်အါအါလီၤ
The Queen wants food to fill the store, so all the ants must work some more.
from “Little Ant's Big Plan” →