Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 522: -anga

-anga: completion, certainty; the ex-, the deceased (Ferrell, p. 58)

vaik-anga: already going; certainly going; deceased
ti kam(a)-anga: (our) deceased father
ti Utjung-anga: the late Utjung. Utjung is a juvenile masculine name (Ferrell, p. 330). 

vaikanga timadju. 

Free translation:
She left. He left. 

Word gloss:
  1. vaik-anga: has left, already going. The root is vaik 'go'. 
  2. ti-madju: he or she, 3rd person singular NOM
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Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary vaikanga

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