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“to step on” in Sgaw Karen

ယီၢ်

yaw̱

to step on

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“to step on” is written ယီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yaw̱. 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

ကဆီထံတထံၣ်လၢပဒဲအိၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်ဘၢ် လၢတၢ်တပာ်သးဘၣ်အ၀ဲယီၢ်ဘၣ်ပဒဲအခီၣ် ပဒဲကီးဃး ကဆီထံ ကဆီီထံ နတထံၣ်နုၤ နယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ်အံၤ
Hippo didn’t see that Rabbit was there and she accidentally stepped on Rabbit’s foot. Rabbit started screaming at Hippo, "You Hippo! Can’t you see that you’re stepping on my foot?"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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