“to sound; noisy” in Sgaw Karen
သီၣ်
thàw
to sound; noisy
“to sound; noisy” is written သီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thàw. 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
ခံးခံး ခံးခံး နံၤသီၣ်ခံးခး ယဖံဂဲၤယတၢ်လိၢ်ကွဲဒီတနံၤညါလီၤ!
Giggle, giggle, giggling away, Granny played, with my little toy. For the rest of the day!
from “Lost and Found” →ပတသီၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအဂၤတဖၣ်ဘၣ် လၢပကျိာ်န့ၣ် ပဘၣ်သူပနးဒ့လၢကနၢတၢ်ပလုၢ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ
We are not noisy like other animals. Ours is a language of smells.
from “Busy Ants” →