Monday, October 4, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 576: buru / bulu // benulu

kuliu: bulai a vaik itjen a benulu ta lanciu?
cuidjui: bulai! ari vaiki. 

Free translation
Is it good that we go playing basketball?

Word gloss
  1. bulai: good, well
  2. a: subject case marker
  3. vaik: go
  4. itjen: we, 1st person PL NOM INCL
  5. a: LIG
  6. b<en>ulu: play ball, AV. The root is bulu or buru 'ball', loanword from Japanese. 
  7. ta: OBL
  8. lanciu: basketball, transliteration loanword from Mandarin
  9. ari: let's
  10. vaik-i: go, IMP, including the speaker
Voice file

From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictiionary (1982), ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary buru, and klokah benulu

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