“to marry” in Sgaw Karen
ဖျီ
hplaw
to marry
“to marry” is written ဖျီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hplaw. 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
အ၀ဲပာ်ကဖၢအသးလၢအမ့ၢ်တၢ်အခီလၢဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ညီလၢဟံၣ်ဒူၣ်ပူၤ စီး၀ၣ်ဃး၀ၣ်ဃးအဂၤတဖၣ်ထံၣ်လၢခါအးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်သူၣ်မုာ်သးမုာ်အါမး မ့ၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် နကဖျီသးဖဲအဆိအံၤဧါ အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဲလိာ်ကွဲအီခါအးအမဲာ်ဂီၤထီၣ်
She was proud that she was part of such a generous family. The other crows saw Kaage looking extremely happy with herself. "What is it, Kaage? Are you getting married soon?" they teased. Kaage blushed.
from “The Generous Crow” →