“silk” in Sgaw Karen
သတိၢ်
tha toh
silk
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“silk” is written သတိၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as tha 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
သ့ၣ်ဖိဝၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်လီၤဂာ်ဘီလိဖိလါလါကပုာ်လုာ် ထံကျိဖိတဖၣ်လီၤဂာ်သတိၢ်ပျံၤအလွဲၢ်သူလါ တၢ်လူၢ်တဖၣ်လီၤဂာ်ထံချံၣ်ဆၢကိၢ်လိၣ်အါလိၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်တဖၣ်လီၤဂာ်ဒ်တၢ်ဒၢလွံၢ်နၢၣ်ဆံးဆံးဖိအလွဲၢ်ဝါပြူးfrom “ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်”