namaduduangasun?
Free translation:
Are you mad? [Have you been in the state of anger?]
Word gloss:
- na-ma-dudu-anga-sun: are you mad? na- 'PRF'; ma- 'to be in the condition of'; the root is dudu 'anger, mad'; -anga 'COS'; -sun 'you, 2nd person SIN clitic'.
Word file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary namadudu.
The wonder of word. In my dialect, I will probably say namatjalawangasun? using matjalaw with the root tjalaw.
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