Thursday, August 27, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 173: nungida

semauamq sun nungida?

In English:
When will you come home?

Glossary: 
  1. semaumaq: the root is umaq 'home, house'. sa- means 'to go to'  or 'to move in the direction of'; with the infix <em>, it becomes a AV verb, therefore s-em-a means to go to, actor/voice. sema kiukai 'to go to the church'; sema taihuku 'to go to Taipei'; the compund semaumaq means to go or come home. 
  2. sun: you, genitive personal pronoun, bound
  3. nungida: when
Reading:

singlit aken tjanusun. I miss you. 

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