ayatua iniyanan kamacaqu ti lanpaw a ljemangui, kaljemanui timadju, sebuqbuq.
Free translation:
Because lanpaw has not yet learned swimming, as he swam, he got drowned.
Word gloss:
- ayatua: because
- iniyanan: not yet
- kamacaqu: learned
- ti: subject case marker for person
- lanpaw: male name
- a: LIG
- lj<em>angui: swim, AV. The root is ljangui.
- kaljemanui: as he got into the water or swam
- timadju: he or she, 3rd person SIN NOM
- se-buqbuq: become drowned. The root is buqbuq 'drown, sink in the water', onomatopoeia.
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary buqbuq.
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