Sunday, October 17, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 589: dudu // kikadudu

anema su kudain a kikadudu tjai tja'ma?

Free translation:
What are you doing, pissing off our dad like that?

Word gloss
  1. a-nema: what
  2. su: your, 2nd person SIN GEN
  3. kuda-in: thing done. The root is kuda 'what, rule, work'; -in 'perfecive marker; action already begun or accomplished; object or product of past action'(Ferrell, p. 17). 
  4. a: LIG
  5. ki-ka-dudu: to piss off, to anger. ki- 'get, obtain'; ka- 'inchoative marker'; the root is dudu 'anger'. 
  6. tjai: OBL, towards someone, in front of direction. 
  7. tja-(k)/'(a)ma: our father. tja- 'our, 1st peron PL GEN INCL'; the root is kama or 'ama 'father, dad'. 
Voice file

From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary kikadudu

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