“to drink water” in Sgaw Karen
အီထံ
aw htee
to drink water
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to drink water” is written အီထံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as aw htee. 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
"ယမ့ၢ်တန့ၢ်အီထံဘၣ်ဒီးယကသံသပှၢ်တၢၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ" တၢၢ်ဖိကိးထီၣ်၀ဲ "ယကဘၣ်လဲၤလၢထံကျိ လၢယန့ၣ်နၣ်ဟူဘၣ်အီၤ"from “How Ant Saved Dove”မိၢ်တ့ၢ်လီၤထံလၢထံဒၢပူၤ စဲမ်စးထီၣ်ဘၣ်ကိၢ်ဘၣ်ဂီၤ "တဟါအံၤပကအီထံကဲဟါတၢ်အီၣ်ဧါ" စဲမ်အ့ၣ်ဂံာ်အ့ၣ်ထုး "တတဲဒံးဘၣ် ခိးကွၢ်ပာ်စၢၤ" မိၢ်စံးဆၢfrom “What's In the Pot?”