“to chase” in Sgaw Karen
လူၤ
loō
to chase
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to chase” is written လူၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as loō. 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
ဘၤတံး တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဃိၢ်လူၤအီၤ အဝဲစံၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လၢာ်သးဒီးကိးပသူထီၣ် “မၤစၢၤ… မၤစၢၤ!”
Bunty is chased by the germs. She runs for her life and screams, "Help… Help!"
from “Bunty and Bubbly” →ဖဲန့ၣ်န့ၣ် ကနဲဒီဖုဟဲယူၤဃီတုၤ ကနဲတဘ့ၣ်တဲဘၣ်စိဖံလၢ "ယထံၣ်နပာ်တ့ၢ်တၢ်ဆၢထံအဒၢ ယဟးဃုက့ၤနၤ က့ၤပကက့ၤသကိး" ကနဲဒီဖုလူၤအ့ၣ်ဖှီသကိးဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်, ဒီးကွဲးစိဖံဒီးနါကိၢ်လံဃ့ၢ်ကွံာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Suddenly, the petals begin to close. They are trapped! A sticky liquid fills up the inside of the flower. "Ugh! I can’t breathe!" shouts the firefly. "We must get out of this place," replies Sophy. She struggles to move, and manages to sting the flower.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →