“raft” in Sgaw Karen
ထိ
htoh
raft
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“raft” is written ထိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as htoh. 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
အဝဲသ့ၣ်လီၤတဲၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်အၢၣ် ဒီးထိၣ် ဒီးတၢးထီတဖၣ် ထိစံးဝဲ"နကွၢ်ကွၢ်ယၤအံၤ ယူၢ်ယူၤ ယလီၤတဲၣ်ချ့န့ၣ်နၤ" ဒီးအဝဲပြၢးလိာ်သးဒီးယူၢ်ယူၤလၢမတၤကလီၤတဲာ်ချ့ကတၢၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ်from “ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်”ယမိၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်တထီၣ်ဖျဲးဘၣ် စါထိအပၢ်သးထီၣ်တၢ်ဒိၣ်မးအဝဲသ့ၣ်ညါဝဲလၢအဖိခွါတကြၢးမၤတၢ်ဒ်အံၤဘၣ် အဝဲသံကွၢ်အဖိလၢအကလုၢ်သမံသပှၢ်အပူၤ" စါထ့! တဲတၢ်နီၣ်ကီၢ်နမၤမတၤလဲၣ်?"from “Prach and Sathae”