“to endure, to hold back” in Sgaw Karen
ကီၤ
kaw̄
to endure, to hold back
“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
ယအီၣ်ကိၣ်ကီၤလၤ (ขนมเค้ก) ဒီးကိၣ်ဆၢကိးမံၤဒဲး ဒ်သိးဒီးနၤစ့ၢ်ကီး
I love cakes and all kinds of sweets, just like you.
from “Busy Ants” →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?” →