Paiwan Every Day 569: bulay

sinsi: bulabulaymun? tucu a qadaw, uri kacuinmun nua sinsi a sema qinaljan a kivala tua ramaljemaljeng. 

situ: bulay yu. uri qivu amen tua kai a pinaiwanan kata ramljemaljeng. 

Free translation: 

Teacher: How you are? Today, I will take you to the village to visit elders. 

Students: That's great. We want to speak Paiwan language with the elders. 

Word gloss: 

1. sinsi: teacher, loanword from Japanese. 
2. bula-bulay-mun: good or well. you; how are you, greeting The root is bulay 'good, pretty'in RED; -mun '2nd person PL, post-clitic'. 
3. tucu a qadaw: today
4. uri: will, be going to
5. kacu-in-mun: take you, UV. The root is kacu 'take, bring'. 
6. nua: of, GEN
7. a: LIG
8. s<em>a: go to, AV.
9. qinaljan: village
10. kivala: play
11. tua: OBL
12. ra-malje-maljeng: elders. The root is ramaljeng 'elder' in RED
13. qivu: speak, say
14. kai: word, language
15. p<in>aiwan-an: Paiwan language
16. kata or katua: with, and 

Voice file:

From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and klokah Paiwan Dialogue.