Sunday, October 18, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 225: vicuka

kuliu: makuda sun, idis? 
idis: saqetju a ku vicuka.

In English:
kuliu: What happened, idis?
idis: My stomach hurts.

Glossary:
  1. ma-kuda: how. ma- ‘stative’; the root kuda ‘how’.
  2. sun: you, 2nd person singular nominative (NOM)
  3. saqetju: hurt, is ill
  4. a: nominative case marker (NOM)
  5. ku: my, 1st person singular genitive (GEN)
  6. vicuka: stomach
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