amnguan a ku sinsi.
Free translation:
My professor is Dutch.
Word gloss:
- amnguan: European or red-headed barbarian, loanword from Minnan hoan-á.
- a: subject case marker
- ku: my, 1st person singular GEN
- sinsi: teacher or professor, loanword from Japanese 先生 せんせい.
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982), p. 57.
This word is not found in ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary nor in web.lokah.
Another interesting word for 'European, American', also found in Ferrell only, is baljaka. Ferrell speculated its source from Malacca, the major Dutch trading entrepot en route to Foromsa in the 17th century. It will be interesting to trace the history.
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