Monday, March 23, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 16: niki ( にっき日記)

I keep a diary, and I read my diaries almost every day.

vencivecik aken ta niki a ljemita a qadaw. 
a i tja ku niki na masan liyaw aravac a ku siipaqentjan. 
aiyanga, kasicuaian. 

In English: 
I write diary every day. There are many memories in my diary. Oh, how I miss the past.

Glossary: 
  1. v<en>ci-vecik: be writing, actor voice (AV). The root is vecik 'write' in reduplication (RED). 
  2. niki: diary, loanword from Japanese にっき日記.
  3. ljemita a qadaw: every day
  4. masan: become
  5. liyaw: many
  6. ku: my, 1st person singular genitive (GEN)
  7. si-i-paqenetj-an: those to remember or memory
  8. aiyanga: greeting, sigh, or expression of emotions
  9. kasi-cuai-an: from the past. kasi- 'to be or come from'; the root is cuai 'a long time ago'. 
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