“to follow” in Sgaw Karen
ပိာ်
poḥ
to follow
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to follow” is written ပိာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as poḥ. 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
တၢ်ပလုၢ်တနီၤနီၤဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါပှၤလၢ "ပိာ်ယခံ တၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီအိၣ်ဖဲအံၤအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်" လီၤ
One kind of smell says, "Follow me this way for a feast."
from “Busy Ants” →ပပိာ်ချံးတဘ့ၣ်အခံတစိၢ်ဖိလံ ဖဲအ၀ဲကွၢ်တရံးတၢ်၀းလၢၢ်ဘၣ်အၢဒ် သိးကဃုကုၤပိာ်လဲၣ်လၢအ၀ံာ်ဒ်သိးကကဲတၢ်အိီၣ်လၢမုၣ်ထူၣ်ခါအဂီၢ်
We followed this hawksbill turtle for a while as he looked around the reef for a nice sea sponge to lunch on.
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