“to be lost” in Sgaw Karen
ဟါမၢ်
hah ma
to be lost
“to be lost” is written ဟါမၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hah ma. 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
ကဆီထံစးထီၣ်ကိီးဒီးကၠံာ်ဃုထံ အဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်လၢာ်လံၤ ကဆီထံဟီၣ်၀ဲဒံး မ့ၢ်အူအီၣ်ယဆူၣ် ယဆူၣ်ဟါမၢ်လၢာ်လံၤ ယဆူၣ်ဂ့ၤဂ့ၤ
Hippo started to cry and ran for the water. All her hair was burned off by the fire. Hippo kept crying, "My hair has burned in the fire! My hair is all gone! My beautiful hair!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →