Paiwan Every Day 30: qesang

COVID-19 is sad, but even sadder are cases where people kill and perish in fear of infection when the results come out negative. I am now having that fear after visiting Taiwan Highway 20 last Friday; there is phlegm in my throat.

izua a ku qesang. marekutj aken tua ljayar. 

In English:

I have phlegm. I am afraid of the flu. 

Glossary:

1. izua: there is

2. ku: first person singular possessive "my"

3. qesang: phlegm, cold

4. marekutj: the root is "rekutj" (fear). [ma-rekutj] is to be afraid; [ma] is a agent-focus verb-

                     making prefix. 

5. ljayar: flu

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