“to start” in Sgaw Karen
စးထီၣ်
säh htàw
to start
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to start” is written စးထီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as säh htàw. 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
စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple” →ဖျီးဖျီး ဒွဲာ်နၢ်ဟူကဆီထံအမဲာ်ထံလီီၤ အ၀ဲၤဒၣ်စးထီၣ်ဂဲကလံၢ်လဲၤ၀းတရံးကဆီထံအခီၣ်ထံး ဟီီာ်ဟီာ်
Plop! Plop! Grasshopper hears Hippo’s tears. He starts dancing around her feet. Hop! Hop!
from “Hippo Wants to Dance” →