“to remain” in Sgaw Karen
အိၣ်တ့ၢ်
òh tay
to remain
“to remain” is written အိၣ်တ့ၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as òh tay. 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
"ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတအိၣ်တ့ၢ်ဂဲၤကလံၢ်နတဘျီ" ကသ့ၣ်ယီစံးကွၢ်အီၤဖဲးအယိးဃာ်တၢ်ဒၢ "ဘၣ်မနုလၢနတမၤတၢ်မၤကၢ်ဃၢလၢအကဲးဘျုးလဲၢ်"
"Why don’t you stop dancing?" asks Donkey, carrying his buckets. "Why can’t you do something useful instead?"
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →