Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 353: valit // pinavalitan

pinavalitan azua namapalak dinki na djalan.

In English
Those broken streetlights have been replaced.  

Glossary
  1. p<in>a-valit-an: to be replaced, undergoer voice (UV). The root is valit 'exchange, replace, ancestor'. 
  2. a-zua: that, those
  3. na-ma-palak: that have been broken. The root is palak 'damage, hurt'. A synomyn is na-malje-kuya 'damaged' with the root kuya 'bad'. 
  4. dinki: light, loanword from Japanese でんき 電気. 
  5. na: of, genitive (GEN) case marker
  6. djalan: road 
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