“wedge” in Sgaw Karen
ကျဲး
klëh
wedge
“wedge” is written ကျဲး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as klëh. 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
#2 တၢ်နီၢ်နီၢ်န့ၣ် ဖီတဖီးအံၤမ့ၢ်ဖီတဖီးလၢအလီၤဆီလၢအဖီၣ်အီၣ်တၢ်ဖိဃၢ် ကနဲကျဲးစၢၤဃ့ၢ်ယူၤကွံာ်ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဂံၢ်ဘါစၢ်လီၤ ဒီးအဒံးဆ့ဘၣ်စီာ် ဒီးအမဲာ်ချံဆံးလီၤ ဆံးလီၤ ဒီးမံဘၣ်အသးန့ၣ်လီၤ
Sophy flies right into the flower's golden heart and takes a sip of the nectar. But it is bitter and makes her feel dizzy. She tries to fly away, but quickly runs out of energy. Her wings become weak and her eyes begin to close.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →"ဂဲၤထၢၣ် ဖိဧၢ" အမိၢ်ကိးအီၤ "နဟးဖျိးကျဲးလံဖိဧၢ"
from “Little Goat” →