“to pity, have mercy” in Sgaw Karen
သးကညီၤ
thä ga nyāw
to pity, have mercy
“to pity, have mercy” is written သးကညီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thä ga nyāw. 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
ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အ၀ဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
Poor pig! When he fell, he landed on his nose. And his nose was flattened into a snout.
from “No Pigs Allowed” →ကဆီထံဃ့၀ံသးစူပဒဲ ယ၀ံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ
Hippo apologised to Rabbit, "I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you. Please forgive me!" But Rabbit wouldn’t listen and he shouted at Hippo, "You did that on purpose! Someday, you’ll see! You’re going to pay!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →