“to blow, to play (a wind instrument)” in Sgaw Karen
အူ
ʼoo
to blow, to play (a wind instrument)
“to blow, to play (a wind instrument)” is written အူ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ʼoo. 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
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အသူအၢမး ထွံၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂူာ်လီာ်ကုၢ်အူသ့ၣ်ပဒၢလၢတၢ်ကတဲာ်ကတီၤတၢ်လီၢ် လၢ တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်ဖျး အဆၢကတီၢ်အဂီၢ်
Mod quickly found herself facing another strange new creature. It was a hyena, burning bushes to prepare for the planting season.
from “Mod the Toad” →ပဒဲလဲၤအိၣ်မ့ၣ်အူဒီးစံး၀ဲ "မ့ၢ်အူ" ကဆီထံယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ် နဘၣ်လဲၤဆူးအူ ကဆီထံ ဖဲအဟဲထီၣ်အီၤထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါ မ့ၣ်အူစံးဆၢအီၤသ့၀ဲသၢၣ် တံၤသကိးပဒဲ ယကမၤဒ်နတဲဘၣ်ယၤအသိးလီၤ
Rabbit went to find Fire and said, "Go, burn Hippo when she comes out of the water to eat grass. She stepped on me!" Fire answered, "No problem, Rabbit, my friend. I’ll do just what you ask."
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →