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“wing” in Sgaw Karen

အဒံး

a dëe

wing

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

“wing” is written အဒံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a dëe. 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

ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!”
အိၣ်တကၠိၢ် ကၠိး၀ၣ်ဃးတဘ့ၣ်ဟဲယူၤ၀း၀းဒီးထံၣ်စိၣ်ဃၤအိၣ်လၢကျဲဃၢၤ အထံၣ်ကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချံအိၣ်လၢစိၣ်ဃၤပူၤဒ်န့ၣ်သိး အကယၢ်ထီၣ်အဒံးမၤဘၢစိၣ်ဃၤ ခိးတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤစိၣ်ဃၤ
A little while later, Vulture was flying around and spotted the basket on the side of the road. He saw that there was money and maize in the basket. So he covered the basket with his wings and waited for the rain to stop.
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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