“to open” in Sgaw Karen
အိးထီၣ်
öh htàw
to open
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to open” is written အိးထီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as öh 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
ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး
I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.
from “Lost and Found” →တိတိးအိးထီၣ်တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှၤအတြဲၤလၢအချ ကွၢ်ကွၢ် ကိကိးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအီၣ်သကွံမု၁်ကဆု အိ—အမၤတၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် ဘၣ်အၢဘၣ်သီလၢာ်လံတိတိးကတိၤတၢ်တထီၣ်ဘးလၢၤဘၣ် ကွၢ်ထံဃီၤတၢ်ဆူကိကိးအအိၣ်
Toto flung open the door of the store. There was Gogo, happily munching on bananas. What a big mess Gogo had made! Toto just stared at him, not able to say a word!
from “Where is Gogo?” →