“to finish” in Sgaw Karen
ဝံၤ
weē
to finish
“to finish” is written ဝံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as weē. 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
ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံ ထီၣ်လၢစဘွဲခိၣ်သ့လံ
I climb on to the chair, and then on the table!
from “I Can Climb!” →စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple” →