“to grind, grate” in Sgaw Karen
ဂံာ်
ghẹe
to grind, grate
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to grind, grate” is written ဂံာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ghẹe. 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
မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ်န့ၣ်ဒီး ကွၢ်ယမဲ ယသူယမဲလၢကအ့ၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂံာ်ဘျဲးတၢ်ကိးမံၤမိၢ်တ့ၢ်လီၤထံလၢထံဒၢပူၤ စဲမ်စးထီၣ်ဘၣ်ကိၢ်ဘၣ်ဂီၤ "တဟါအံၤပကအီထံကဲဟါတၢ်အီၣ်ဧါ" စဲမ်အ့ၣ်ဂံာ်အ့ၣ်ထုး "တတဲဒံးဘၣ် ခိးကွၢ်ပာ်စၢၤ" မိၢ်စံးဆၢfrom “What's In the Pot?”