“to wear (a shirt)” in Sgaw Karen
သိး
thoḧ
to wear (a shirt)
“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” →