“to swallow” in Sgaw Karen
ယူၢ်
yoo̱
to swallow
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to swallow” is written ယူၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yoo̱. 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
တၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လဲၤပူၤကွံာ်ဝဲကွ့ၢ်ကွ့ၢ် အတံၤသကိး မံးဖြးအထံး ယူၤထီထီၣ် ထီထီဆူမူခိၣ် ကၠိထိၤဒီးယူၢ်ယူၤဒီးထံလီၤတဖၣ် တထံၣ်ဘၣ်မုၢ်လၢဘၣ်from “ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်”