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“to come up” in Sgaw Karen

ဟဲထီၣ်

heh htàw

to come up

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

“to come up” is written ဟဲထီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as heh htàw. 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

"ဟဲထီၣ်မီၤ" ယတဲယသကိး "ပကလိၣ်ကွဲသကိး" ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဝဲတဟဲထီၣ်ဘၣ်
"Come out," I tell her, "we will play." She does not come out.
from “My Best Friend”
ပဒဲလဲၤအိၣ်မ့ၣ်အူဒီးစံး၀ဲ "မ့ၢ်အူ" ကဆီထံယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ် နဘၣ်လဲၤဆူးအူ ကဆီထံ ဖဲအဟဲထီၣ်အီၤထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါ မ့ၣ်အူစံးဆၢအီၤသ့၀ဲသၢၣ် တံၤသကိးပဒဲ ယကမၤဒ်နတဲဘၣ်ယၤအသိးလီၤ
Rabbit went to find Fire and said, "Go, burn Hippo when she comes out of the water to eat grass. She stepped on me!" Fire answered, "No problem, Rabbit, my friend. I’ll do just what you ask."
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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