“river” in Sgaw Karen
ထံကျိ
htee gloh
river
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“river” is written ထံကျိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as htee gloh. 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
ကဆီထံအဲၣ်ဒီးဂဲကလံၢ် အ၀ဲၤပိၢ်ရံးလီၤအသးလီၤလၢထံကျိပူၤဒီးပှီၢ်ထံလၢအစုးအခီၢ် သပျဲး သပျဲး
Hippo wants to dance. She rolls into the river and splashes her arms and legs. Splish! Splash!
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →ဖဲးနၣ်အလီၢ်ခံ ကဆီထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါအိၣ်စီၤစုၤဒီးထံကျိ ပူၤ မ့ၢ်အူအလၢ်သပျီၢ်ထီၣ်တဘျီဃီ ကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်
Later, Hippo was eating grass far from the river when, "Whoosh!" Fire burst into flame. The flames began to burn Hippo’s hair.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair” →