“to hit” in Sgaw Karen
တိ
toh
to hit
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to hit” is written တိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as toh. 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
တယံာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးယဖံဟဲက့ၤလၢအတၢ်ဟးလိၢ်ကွဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ်ယဖံတိကီၣ်မတၤတမံၤလၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤလဲၣ်"
Soon granny came back from her walk. "Look what I found in the park."
from “Lost and Found” →လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤပဒဲဟဲတုၤဒီးတိကီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ပဒဲတဲ၀ဲ ဟဲဲပကပြၢလီာ်သး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကနၢၤနၤနီၢ်ကီၢ်လီၤ
On Sunday, the rabbit arrived and found the snail. The rabbit said, "Let´s have a race. But I will win."
from “The Race” →