Thursday, December 23, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 656: pai

pai, kusualapav a dengec i tua su mudingan. 

Free translation
Come, let me get the crumbs off your face. 

Word gloss
  1. pai: reminder, invitation, command
  2. kusualapv: let me take. I think this is patient focus because the subject of the sentence is the semantic object dengec so literally similar to taken by me
  3. a: subject case marker
  4. dengec: food crumbs
  5. i: LOC
  6. tua: OBL
  7. su: your, 2nd person SIN GEN
  8. mudingan: face. qimi means cheeks. 
Voice file:

From ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary dengec

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