“to bite” in Sgaw Karen
အ့ၣ်
ʼaỳ
to bite
“to bite” is written အ့ၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ʼaỳ. 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
စိးဝၥ်ဃးကိး ကါ ကါ သ့... တၢၢ်အ့ၣ်တၢ်သ့... ထွံၣ်မီၤတၢ်သ့!
Crows can caw... ants can bite... dogs can bark!
from “Can and Can't” →မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီး ကွၢ်ယမဲ ယသူယမဲလၢကအ့ၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂံာ်ဘျဲးတၢ်ကိးမံၤ
And yes, my teeth. I use my teeth to chew and bite.
from “We Are All Animals” →