“to be funny” in Sgaw Karen
လီၤနံၤ
lāw nēe
to be funny
“to be funny” is written လီၤနံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lāw nēe. 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
"ယိ-ယိး န့ၣ် အမံၤလီၤနံၤဒိၣ်မး! ပ၈ဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဲအီၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးန့ၣ်လီၤ!
"Yo-yo? What a funny name! What a funny toy! I want to play with it, It gives me so much joy!"
from “Lost and Found” →တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ နၢ်ဟူတၢ်သးဝံၣ်ဒီး သုးဘူးလီၤအသး စီၤကါကးဒီးဒံနိး သူၣ်ခုသးခု ကွၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိဒီး မ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၤနံၤလီၤ!
The clouds hear the song. The clouds come in. Kaka and Dinoo are glad. Funny clouds!
from “Sing in the Rain” →