“to cough” in Sgaw Karen
ကူး
koö
to cough
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to cough” is written ကူး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as koö. 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
တၢ်တမိၢ်မံယသးဒ်ဘၣ်မိဧၢ"ထံကူးကဒူးကဒ့ၣ်တၢ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ထံကူးအမိၢ်တနၢ်ဟူဘၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအမံယီာ်လံ ထံကူးဃာ်အသးလၢအကၠ့ၣ်တပၤဃာ်လၢအထွဲတပၤမံကျၢၢ်လီၤသး၀ံၤကၢရံးသးအီထီခိၣ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်မံတန့ၢ်ဒ်ဘၣ်
"I am not sleepy, Ma," murmured Tinku. But Ma did not hear him. She was fast asleep. He turned left, and he turned right. He lay on his tummy, and rolled on his back. But he could not sleep!
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