“right (side)” in Sgaw Karen
ထွဲ
htweh
right (side)
“right (side)” is written ထွဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as htweh. 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
စ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, စ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, ပကဟးကယီကယီ သဲတဂ့ၤ
Left, right, left, right. We walk silently in a line.
from “Busy Ants” →ဖဲပက့ၤကဒါက့ၤဆူချံးအအိပသူၣ်ကိၢ်သး၀းလၢပထံၣ်ညၢ် ယူၤခီဂာ်ထံ ဒီးညၢ်ကမီသူၣ်ရ့ၤမိၤရၤခံဘ့ၣ် ပိာ်ထွဲအခံစဲသူၣ်လိာ်အသး
As we made our way back to the boat, we were thrilled to see a manta ray ‘flying’ through the water with two remora fish in tow.
from “Dive!” →