Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 270: pariuk // pinipariuk

anema a su pinipariuk?

In English: 
What did you put in the wok (to cook)? 
What are you cooking in the pan?

Glossary
  1. anema: what
  2. a: subject case marker
  3. su: your, genitive (GEN) case marker. In a Paiwan UV sentence, the subject is in genitive case. 
  4. p<in>i-pariuk: what you put in the wok, i.e. food. The root is pariuk 'wok, frying pan'; pi- 'to put in'; -in- 'undergoer voice (UV) case marker'. 
Reading

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary pinariuk. Rather than pinariuk, the recording actually has pinipariuk, which is also more correct for the Paiwan syntax. 

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