“to go up” in Sgaw Karen
လဲၤထီၣ်
lēh htàw
to go up
“to go up” is written လဲၤထီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lēh htàw. 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
ထံကူးပ၁်လီၤသးလဲၤထီၣ်ကွၢ်ကီတၢ်ဆူအံၤဆူနုၤ ကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်မူကပိာ်လိၤ ထံကူးထံၣ်လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤဖျါဆှံမး ဆှၢန့ၣ်အီၤတၢ်နံၤကမှံမၤမု၁်အသးဒိၣ်မး မုၢ်နၤခါအံၤဃံလၤမးလီၤ ထံကူးဆိမိၣ်၀ဲလၢအသးပူၤ
So he set off into the night to see what he could find. Up in the sky, Tinku saw the moon, white and round, smiling down at him. He felt very happy. ‘Night is beautiful,’ thought Tinku.
from “Goodnight, Tinku!” →မၤကဒီးတနံၤ ဒ့စံၣ်လဲၤထီၣ်လၢဆီဃၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီးတဖျုာ်အဒံးဆ့ ဖြုးဖြုး အ၀ဲဒၣ်ယူ၀ဲလၢၢမူဖးဖီဒီးတဖျုာ်အဒံးဆ့ ဒီးတဖျုာ်အဒံးဆ့ ဒီးတဖျုာ်အဒံးဆ့ ဒီး,,,,,,,
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