“to rest” in Sgaw Karen
အိၣ်ဘှံး
òh bwëe
to rest
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to rest” is written အိၣ်ဘှံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as òh bwëe. 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
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဲဆၢအီၤ ဟဲက့ၤမၤကွၢ်လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤမီၤ
The snail said, "Come and see on Sunday."
from “The Race” →ပတိကီးညၢ်ကမီအဒံး၀ါတကူၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးဖဲအသူၣ် ဘူၣ် လိၤဖဲအခံကိၢ်န့ၣ်မၤအၢတၢ်တသ့အါဘၣ်အဃိပပီၢ်ထံလဲၤကွၢ်အီၤဘူၣ်ဘူၣ်လီၤ
We came across a couple of whitetip reef sharks resting near the bottom. They’re pretty harmless, so we swam in for a closer look.
from “Dive!” →