“to shake” in Sgaw Karen
ဟူးဝး
hoö wä
to shake
“to shake” is written ဟူးဝး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hoö wä. 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
"အကွံလီၤသ့ အခွ့ထီၣ်ခွ့လီၤသ့ အတရံးသးသ့ ဘျးလီၤစဲဟူးဝးသ့ ဟးဟါ ဟံးဟံး"ယဖံနံၤထီၣ် ခံးခံး န့ၣ်လီၤ
"It can sway, it can bounce. It can spin, it can dangle. Ha-ha, hee-hee," said Granny with a giggle.
from “Lost and Found” →ဒးဘီ ဒ့ၣ် ဒီးဂုၢ်ဟဲပၢၢ်ထီၣ်, ဒ်သိးကဖီၢ်အီၣ်အဝဲခံဂၤလၢာ် စိဖံဒီးနါကိၢ်လံမၤဟူးဝးအသးတဘူၣ်လၢၤဘၣ် ဒီးပျံၤတၢ်ဒိၣ်မး
As the night deepens, centipedes, frogs, and snakes emerge from the forest. They are drawn to the firefly's glowing light.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →