Saturday, April 17, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 406: cunuq // macunucunuq

azua gadu a tja pacucunan macunucunuq sakamaya. 

Free translation
That mountain we are looking at keeps collapsing. 

Word gloss
  1. azua: that
  2. gadu: mountain, hill
  3. a: ligature (LIG)
  4. tja: our, 1st person plural genitive (GEN)
  5. pa-cu-cun-(an): watching. The root is cun 'see, watch'. 
  6. ma-cunu-cunuq: is collapsing or sliding. The root is cunuq 'landslide, collapse'. 
  7. sakamaya: still or continue to
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From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary macunucunuq

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