“to chisel” in Sgaw Karen

ပျၤ

plā

to chisel

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“to chisel” is written ပျၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as plā. 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

ညၢ်ကျီၢ်ဒီးပီၤဒီးပီာ်လဲၣ်ပထံၣ်တုၤလၢညၢ် ဂီၤအလွဲၢ်လါဟ့တဖျၢၣ်ဖိ ဒီးပျၤမုာ်ဒီးသကး လိၢ်ကွဲ အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လိာ်သးဒီးလၢၢ်ဒိီလူၢ်ဒီဂ့ၢ်အိၣ်လီၤလၢလၢထံကျါ
There were triggerfish and sea urchins. We even saw a coral grouper and a reef octopus playing hide-and-seek.
from “Dive!”

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