ကညီKnyaw
Language: English

“to endure, to hold back” in Sgaw Karen

ကီၤ

kaw̄

to endure, to hold back

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

“to endure, to hold back” is written ကီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kaw̄. 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

ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တထံၣ်ကိကိးအခီၣ်လီၢ်ဘၣ် တိတိး ဟ်လီၤအသးယူၤလီၤလၤထံပူၤ ဘၣ်တဘၣ်ကိကိး ကကီၤကသါဒီးအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢထံကျါ
Gogo was not to be found. Toto took a deep breath and dived into the river. What if Gogo was holding his breath and hiding underwater?
from “Where is Gogo?”

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