Sunday, June 28, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 113: cug

cug aravac a sasiq a karakuda. 

In English:
Ants are very diligent in their work.

Glossary:
  1. cug: diligent, hard-working. The loaned word from the Japanese "まじめ" - madjimi - is used in Sinvaudjan Paiwan.
  2. aravac: very, quite
  3. a: case marker for the nominative
  4. sasiq: ant
  5. a: ligature
  6. karakuda: the root is "kuda" (rule, work, result, what's happening...). [kara-kuda] means to work. 
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