လေဝ်

Eastern Pwo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *lwɛᴬ. Cognates include S'gaw Karen လဲၤ (leh̄).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪ˩˩/

Verb

လေဝ် (lì̱)

1. (intransitive) to go

Etymology 2

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognates include S'gaw Karen လဲး (leḧ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪ˩˩/

Verb

လေဝ် (lì̱)

1. (transitive) to scorch; to burn

References

• A. Kato (2009) “A Basic Vocabulary of Htoklibang Pwo Karen with Hpa-an, Kyonbyaw, and Proto-Pwo Karen Forms”, in Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, volume 4, page 194
• A. Kato (2021) “Pwo Karen writing systems”, in Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, volume 52, page 39

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /léː/

Pronoun

လေဝ် (lew)

1. also too.

   အဲအာအတေံဏောၚ်ဗှ်ေလေဝ်အာကဵုဟာ။

   ʼoa ʼā ʼateṃ ṇoṅ bhelewʼā keu hā.

   I shall be going there do you want to come too?

   တဵုလဝ်ဒယိုၚ်ကၞာပ္တဴလဝ်အလာံဇၞောဝ်တံဂှ်လေဝ်။

   teu law dayiuṅ knā ptao law ʼalāṃ jnow taṃ ghlew.

   They set up the posts for the pavilion and hung up banners and streamers.

   ဗြဴဍေံလေဝ်အဲဟွံတီ။

   brao ḍeṃ lew ʼoa hwaṃ tiṃm.

   Also, I do not know his wife.

   မာတ်ညးစိုတ်ကၠုၚ်ရအဲလေဝ်ဟွံတီ။

   māt ñaḥ ciut kluṅra ʼoa lew hwaṃ tiṃm.

   Although he had arrived I didn't know he had.

   မွဲဨကလေဝ်သြောံၜါဣသုန်တိတ။

   mwoaʼeka lew sroṃ ṗāʼisun tita .

   Per acre it yields twenty-five baskets, Qualifying cl, if.

   ဂိလေဝ် မုဒှ်သာ်လဵုဗှ်ေလိၚ်ရော။

   gi lew mu dh sāk leu bhe liṅ ro.

   If you don't like it why do you rent the land?

   ဇကုကၠုၚ်ပြဟ်မာန်လေဝ်ကၠုၚ်ညိ။

   jaku kluṅ prah mān lew kluṅ ñi.

   If you can please come soon.

   တိခိုဟ်လေဝ်တိတ်မံၚ်ကီုရ။

   tikhiuh lew tit maṃṅ kiuṃra.

   The land is good you do get that much yield.

   ဒၞာဲဏံတဵုတုဲလေဝ်ယးသၞာံတဵုဂွံဏီဟာ။

   dnāyṇaṃ teutuy lew yaḥ snāṃ teugwaṃ ṇiṃhā.

   Having planted this patch will you be able to plant it again next year?

   ဟွံဂွံစပုၚ်ဏီလေဝ်စၜဴ ကံဗှ်ေလီုဏောၚ်။

   hwaṃ gwaṃca puṅ ṇiṃ lew caṗao kaṃ bhe liuṃ ṇoṅ.

   If you have not had your dinner and eat sugar-cane it will spoil your appetite.

   ၜၚ်ဂှ်ဍုန်စသွလေဝ်ဍာတ်မံၚ်။

   ṗaṅ gh ḍunca swa lew ḍāt maṃṅ.

   If one puts bamboo shoots in a curry it give a sweet taste.