“to embrace, to hug” in Sgaw Karen
ဖိးဟု
hpöh hu
to embrace, to hug
“to embrace, to hug” is written ဖိးဟု in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpöh hu. 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
ဒီးအဝဲဟးဃုတၢ်ဖိတၢ်လံၤ လၢအဖျါဆှံဒီးဖိးဟုဝဲ စဲလံဒူး ကၢလံာ်လူာ်အီၤဒီး သးဝံၣ်တၢ်လီၤ
from “ဒူး—ဒူးသၢဒု” →ဆိနၤဖိးဟုထီၣ်လံာ်ဒီးမံဘၣ်အသး တနၤန့ၣ် ဆိမ်နၤန်နၢ်ဟူလံာ်အိးထီၣ်အသး အဝဲဂဲၤဆၢထၢၣ်ဃုကွၢ်တၢ် ဆိနၤ တဲထီၣ်ဝဲ “ယပၢ်တမ့ၢ်ပှၤမၤသဲတၢ်အံၤဘၣ်”
from “The Storybook Princess” →