“warm” in Sgaw Karen
လၢၤ
luh̄
warm
“warm” is written လၢၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as luh̄. 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
ပဒဲသးခု လၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ် တုၤခဲအံၤ ကဆီထံတအိၣ်ယံၤဒီးထံလၢၤဘၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢၤအပျံၤမ့ၢ်အူ
Rabbit was happy that Hippo's hair was burned. And to this day, for fear of fire, the hippo never goes far from the water.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →တနွံပူၤကွံာ် … အဝဲအနူအ့ၣ်တအိၣ်လၢၤဘၣ်! ဒံဖယၤ အဲၣ်ဒိးထံၣ်အသကိးကိးဂၤဒဲးတုၤဒၣ်လဲၣ်ခိးဝဲတကဲလၢၤဘၣ်!
A week later… No more sniffles! Divya can’t wait to see all her friends!
from “Sniffles” →