“to shout” in Sgaw Karen
ကိးပသူ
köh pa thoo
to shout
“to shout” is written ကိးပသူ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as köh pa thoo. 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
ပလိၣ်ကွဲ ပဃ့ၢ်ထီၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လီၤ ပကိးပသူထီၣ်သကိးလီၤ
We play, we run, we shout and scream together.
from “My Best Friend” →ဘၤတံး တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဃိၢ်လူၤအီၤ အဝဲစံၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လၢာ်သးဒီးကိးပသူထီၣ် “မၤစၢၤ… မၤစၢၤ!”
Bunty is chased by the germs. She runs for her life and screams, "Help… Help!"
from “Bunty and Bubbly” →