“to exchange” in Sgaw Karen
လဲ
leh
to exchange
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to exchange” is written လဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as leh. 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
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.
from “Mod the Toad” →တၢ်နီၢ်ကီၢ်မ့ၢ်ပလီဖီးစလဲန်တဖျၢာ်ဃီလၢဒံၣ်ဒူၣ်ဖိကိးဂၤစုာ်လီၤသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲလၢအပူၤပာ်ဖံအနီလၢအမဲဘီဒီးသူလၢအသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲကၢကီာ်လိာ်သးဒီးအမဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
from “How Does the Toothpaste Get into the Tube?” →