Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 221: djamuq

aku djamudjamuqan a su itung?

In English: 
Why is your clothes stained all over with blood?

Glossary: 
  1. a-ku: why. a 'nominative case marker', ku 'why'. 
  2. djamu-djamuq-an: stained with bloood, reduplication (RED), -an 'abstract state nominalization'
  3. a: ligature
  4. su: your, 2nd person genitive (GEN)
  5. itung: clothes
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