Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 179: kasinu

kasinu a icu a nu qararat?

In English:
Where is this of your cobblestone from?

Glossary: 
  1. kasinu: compund (kasi 'to be from' + inu 'where). when two i's meet in Paiwan, they become one, that is contraction of identical verbs. so instead of kas(i)inu, it is kasinu 'to be/come from where'. 
  2. a: case marker for the nominative 
  3. icu: this
  4. a: ligature
  5. nu: your, plural
  6. qararat: cobblestone, cobblestones
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