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“to pound (rice)” in Sgaw Karen

တိၢ်

toẖ

to pound (rice)

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

“to pound (rice)” is written တိၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as toẖ. 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

ညၢ်ကွဲၤပူၤခိၣ်ဒူဆီတလဲအလွဲၢ်ဒ်သိးကမၤကွၢ်တၢ်အိၣ်အသးဒ်သိးကမၤအသးလီၤဂာ်ဒီၤညၢ်တခွ့ဆၣ်ဘီဘၣ်ဆၣ်သုကတိၢ်န့ၣ်အီၤတကီဘၣ် တမ့ၢ်ဧါ
This trumpetfish changed colour to try and blend in with a school of yellow tang, but you can pick him out easily enough, can’t you?
from “Dive!”

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