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Translation (Htoi San)
I am telling a story about a calf, a cow, and a frog. Here is from the Kachin proverb 'A frog in the footprint of a cow.' One day in the puddle, a mother frog laid eggs in a spoor where a cow pounced on the ground, and it appeared hollow. She bore many children, but they could not find food for themselves. So she went outside to find food for her froglets. One day, while the mother frog went outside, a cow came into the puddle. That cow played in that mud with its whole body dipped inside the water; it pressed and killed some of the tadpoles. After she came home, the froglets told their mother, "Mother, a giant cow came and stepped forcibly on some of our siblings, and they died. That huge cow came to play in the puddle, pressed on some of our siblings, then killed them." Mother frog was furious and sad, "How big was that cow?" Her kids answered, "Don't say, mom, it was tremendous." "How big was it?" Mother asked. The kids replied, "Mom, it was massive." Mother kept on asking, "How huge was that?" Her children said, "It was quite large and cannot be measurable." "How could it not be measurable, and how giant was it?" Mother asked the froglets, and she showed her belly bigger, "This much?" "Not that much. It was bigger than that." "Was it this much?" Then the mother frog made her belly bigger and asked. "Mom, not that much. More than that," her children replied. "Was it this much?" "Not that big. It was much larger than that." Mother frog jumped on a tree and sat on a stump. Then she swelled her skin bigger and said, "This huge?" The kids answered, "Mom, it was bigger than you showed." Then she made her belly much more significant, "This much?" She asked with her anger, and her bowels burst out with the sound "Hpak," after that, she died. Therefore, older people taught us not to be angry with this story when we were young.
Transcription (La Ring)
Nga hte nga kanu hte shu kanu a lam hpe hkai na re ya gaw. Ndai anhte Jinghpaw ga malai nga ai anhte "Nga hkang kata na shu tek" ngu ai. Lani mi nga wulu langai mi kaw she nga hkang i myet di da ai hkang krawk ai kaw shu kanu gaw hpum na kasha ni hpe di di da sai da. Kasha tai wa kasha tai wa kasha law wa raitim kasha ni tam sha nchye shi ai majaw kanu mahtang shinggan de tam hkawm nna kasha ni hpe bau ai da. Dai shaloi she kanu wo de hkawm mat re shaloi she lani mi nga langai wulu lu sa na hku rai nga. Nga langai wulu lu sa di shi kamye ning kapring kaprau hkum kamye tsing yang she nga kasha nkau mi hpe abrep si mat ai da. Abrep si mat rai yang she kasha ni gaw kanu wa ai shaloi tsun dan ai da "Nu e daini gaw nga kanu grai kaba ai langai mi sa nna anhte na an nau ni nkau mi hpe abrep si mat sai lo. Shi lagaw e kamyet shi wulu lu hkum hte kamyet nna kanau ni nkau si mat sai" ngu. Kanu grai pawt sai grai yawn sai "Kade ram kaba ai nga kanu re law" ngu yang "Yi nu e hkum tsun lo grai kaba ai re lo" ngu. "Kade kaba ai" ngu yang "Grai kaba ai law nu e" ka-un sai hku rai nga "Kade ram kaba ai" nga yang "Grai kaba ai law nu e hkum tsun shadawn ndang ai lo" nga. "Kaning rai shadawn ndang na kade ram kaba ai" nga kanu dan nga na she shu hpe wa shabawng dat ai shi gaw "Ndai ram i" ngu kan loi tit di. "Dai ram sha nre lo nu e grai naw kaba ai" "Ndai ram i" nga na kan bai tit di "Dai ram sha n-ga ai lo nu e" nga yang "Ndai ram i" ngu yang "Dai ram sha mung n-ga ai law nu e" kaning re ngu na hpun langai nga ai hpun kaw tsat ra hkra rai hpundu kaw ra htit rai dung na she "Ndai ram i" ngu kan naw hpyi naw shabawng ai "Dai ram n-ga ai nu grai kaba ai" ngu. "Ndai ram i" ngu dat ai shaloi she shi nau pawt na she "Hpak" nga shu wa pu wa yawng ayai mat na shu gaw dai kaw ayai si mat ai da. Dai majaw ndai kaji yang anhte nau nmai pawt ai ni hpe dai hku sharin nga ai ngu. |
