“to cause (someone to do); to fight” in Sgaw Karen
ဒုး
dü
to cause (someone to do); to fight
“to cause (someone to do); to fight” is written ဒုး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as dü. 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
အအံၤမ့ၢ်ယမဲာ်ချံ လၢအဒုးထံၣ်ယၤတၢ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
Look, these are my eyes. I can see everything with them.
from “We Are All Animals” →"ပလီၢ်နသးစ့ၢ်ကၢ် နဘူးကတချးဘၣ်ယၤလံၤ"ယုၢ်မံခဲးထဲးထီၣ်၀ဲၤဖဲးအဒုးလုၢ်အဖိၤအထံအခါ လဲၤဂဲကလံလၢကၢ်ဃၢန့ၣ်
"Be careful! You nearly kicked me!" says Meerkat, bathing his babies. "Go dance somewhere else."
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →