“to see” in Sgaw Karen
ထံၣ်
hṭeè
to see
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to see” is written ထံၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hṭeè. 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
အအံၤမ့ၢ်ယမဲာ်ချံ လၢအဒုးထံၣ်ယၤတၢ်ကိးမံၤဒဲး
Look, these are my eyes. I can see everything with them.
from “We Are All Animals” →လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ် ဆၢကပုာ်လုာ်ဒီးချံၣ် လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ်ယထူပျ့ၤထံလီၤလီၤ
Just one bite to taste it, sweet, juicy, cool, That one little taste is making me drool!
from “The Big Juicy Apple” →