“to drink” in Sgaw Karen
အီ
ʼaw
to drink
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to drink” is written အီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ʼaw. 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
စိဖံယူၤထီထီၣ်ဒီးတဲဝဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ် ယကမၤန့ၣ်ထံဆၢလၢအအါကတၢၢ်!" အဝဲယူၤဖုၣ်လီၤဒီးမၤန့ၢ်ထံဆၢလၢဖီတဖီးဘၣ်တဖီးအအိၣ် အဝဲတကနၣ်ဃုာ်ကနဲအဂၤဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီစိဖံကအီကွၢ်ဖီအထံဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bees work hard gathering nectar. But Sophy is not pleased that no one is paying attention to her. "Look everyone! I have already filled my jar with nectar. I even have enough left over for a snack."
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →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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