Thursday, July 30, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 145: tjutjutj

nasulapelj aravac a icu a tjutjutj. 

In English: 
These doves are very gentle.

Glossary:
  1. nasulapelj: the root is "sulapelj" (gentle, sweet). [na-sulapelj] means gentle and sweet; na-, the prefix, indicates a past perfect, used to stress the fact. 
  2. aravac: quite, very
  3. a: case marker for the nominative subject
  4. icu: this, these
  5. a: ligature
  6. tjutjutj: dove, piegon. tjutjutj sounds like onomatopoeia. 
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