“to give” in Sgaw Karen
ဟ့ၣ်
haỳ
to give
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to give” is written ဟ့ၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as haỳ. 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
ယပၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ဆံၤတူအမဲာ်ဒီး ယမိၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယၤခိၣ်မီၣ်လါအဲး ဒီးပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယပုၢ်လၢကိာ်ကမၢလီၤ
Papa bought Chintu fancy glasses. Mother bought me a bright blue cap. The baby got sugar candy.
from “The Moon and the Cap” →ဒံနိးအဝဲ အဲၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်ဝံၣ်သးဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီး! စီၤကါကးဒီး ဒံနိး သးဝံၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံၣ် တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ ဟဲအိၣ်ယၤတက့ၢ်! ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢမူခိၣ်ထံတက့ၢ်!
Dinoo likes the song too! Kaka and Dinoo sing and dance. Come to me, clouds! Give me your rain!
from “Sing in the Rain” →