“sneeze” in Sgaw Karen

ဆဲး

hsëh

sneeze

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“sneeze” is written ဆဲး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsëh. 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

လါက၀ီၤဖးဒိၣ်ဆဲးကပီၤလီၤဒီနၤ ထံကူးမံမုာ်ဒီနၤစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bright round moon shone all night long, spreading her calm light all around. And Tinku slept all through the night!
from “Goodnight, Tinku!”
တစိၢ်ဖိဒီး စါထ့ဒီးအပၢ်ဟဲတုၤ စါထ့အမဲာ်လီၤဝါဒိၣ်န့ၢ်အလီၢ် ယမိၢ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသးဖဲထံၣ်ဘၣ်စါထ့ဒီးအပၢ် သရၣ်ကၠိခိၣ်တဲဟ့ၣ်ပှၤကိးဂၤလၢတၢ်လၢယဘၣ်တၢ်မၤဆဲးအဲးယၤ
from “Prach and Sathae”

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