Paiwan Every Day 486: ada

sannguaq a ada.

Free translation:

Onion is delicious. 

Word gloss: 

1. san-nguaq: tasty, delcious. The root is nguaq 'good, well'. 
2. a: subject case marker
3. ada: onion in RF (1982). ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary does not have this word; instead, it has canga, a loanword from Minnan tshang-á.  And in "List of Southern Pawian Vocabulary", there is ada 'onion' or 'scallion'. Another more common word is nigi for scallion and tamanigi for onion. Both are loanwords from Japanese ねぎ and 玉ねぎ たまねぎ. 

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From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and List of Paiwan Vocabulary ada.