Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 508: alip // matjatjuqalip

namatjatjuqalip azua madrusa a semazaya. 

Free translation
The two of them walked uphill with arms around each other's shoulders. 

Word gloss
  1. na-ma-tja-tjuqalip: to have arms around another peron's shoulder. The root is tjuqalip, though in Ferrell (p. 56) the root is alip. The glottal stop (sometimes marked as '' or /q/) is a tricky sound. 
  2. azua: that, those
  3. madrusa: two 
  4. a: LIG
  5. s<em>a-zaya: go uphill, AV. sa 'go towards'; zaya 'high land'. 
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From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary matjatjuqalip

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