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“to wear (a shirt)” in Sgaw Karen

သိး

thoḧ

to wear (a shirt)

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

“to wear (a shirt)” is written သိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thoḧ. 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

ပပိာ်ချံးတဘ့ၣ်အခံတစိၢ်ဖိလံ ဖဲအ၀ဲကွၢ်တရံးတၢ်၀းလၢၢ်ဘၣ်အၢဒ် သိးကဃုကုၤပိာ်လဲၣ်လၢအ၀ံာ်ဒ်သိးကကဲတၢ်အိီၣ်လၢမုၣ်ထူၣ်ခါအဂီၢ်
We followed this hawksbill turtle for a while as he looked around the reef for a nice sea sponge to lunch on.
from “Dive!”
ထိၣ်ပှာ်နကသိၣ်လိယၤလၢတၢ်ဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့ဧါ ခါအးသံကွၢ်ထိၣ်ပှာ် ထိၣ်ပှာ်စံး၀ဲသ့သၢၣ် မၤဒ်ယမၤအသိး ခါအးသလၣ်အမဲၢ်ဆူၣ် အ၀ဲခါအခီၣ်ချးတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်
"Peacock, will you give me dance lessons?" asked Kaage, when she had found him. "Sure," said the peacock. "Just do as I do." Kaage spread her tail feathers. She stepped in time.
from “The Generous Crow”

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