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“to be hot” in Sgaw Karen

ကိၢ်

koẖ

to be hot

“to be hot” is written ကိၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as koẖ. 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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ထံအကိၢ်ဒိၣ်တလၢ

It is too hot.

from “Looking For Water”

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!”

More Weather words

ကလံၤဖိနဲbreezeကလံၤသဝံးwhirlwindခုၣ်cold, cool (to the touch)ဂိၢ်cold (weather)စီၣ်wetတၢၢ်ကွဲၤrainbowတၢ်ကိၢ်ခါhot season, summerတၢ်ခုၣ်cold, coolness