“to split, to separate” in Sgaw Karen
လီၤဖး
lāw hpä
to split, to separate
“to split, to separate” is written လီၤဖး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lāw hpä. 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
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.
from “Mod the Toad” →ဒီးဖဲမုၢ်ကလီၤနုာ်အကတီၢ်န့ၣ် ကနဲတဖၣ်အိၣ်ကတီၢ်လၢတၢ်ဃုအီၣ်တၢ်ဆၢထံ ဒီးဆိကမိၣ်ဝဲလၢ စိဖံက့ၤကတုၤလၢအတၢ်အိၣ်တၢ်ဆိးလီၢ် ဒီးကနဲဒီဖုယူၤလီၤဖးဒီးအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
Meanwhile, the swarm finishes collecting nectar as the sun sets. But no one can find Sophy. They know she always flies ahead of the group, so decide she must have gone back to the hive alone. The bees head home without her.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →