“to happen” in Sgaw Karen
ကဲထီၣ်အသး
keh htàw a thä
to happen
“to happen” is written ကဲထီၣ်အသး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as keh htàw a thä. 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
အ၀ဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ
This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.
from “Mod the Toad” →