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“to lie down” in Sgaw Karen

မံလီၤ

mee lāw

to lie down

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“to lie down” is written မံလီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mee lāw. 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

ယသးတမုာ်ဘၣ် ဒီးယက့ၤမံလီၤ
I am not happy. I go to sleep.
from “My Best Friend”
စိဖံမံလီၤဒီးကွၢ်ထီၣ်တၢ်ဆူမူခိၣ်လၢအဖျါဃံလၤ တဘျီဃီန့ၣ် အဝဲထံၣ်ဖီလုးလုးတဖီးလၢအလီၤဆီဘၣ်အမဲာ် အဝဲအသူၣ်ဂဲၤသးဂဲၤထီၣ် ဒီးဆိမိၣ်ဝဲဖီတဖီးအံၤကအိၣ်ဒီးအထံဆၢအါမး ဒီးအဝဲလဲၤဃီယူၤဝဲလၢဖီတဖီးအလိၤတဘျီဃီလီၤ
Sophy lies down on a nice leaf and looks at the beautiful sky. Suddenly, she sees an unusual purple flower high above her. "That flower is huge!" she exclaims. "I bet I can get more nectar than all the other bees combined from that flower."
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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