Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 144: qam

matu qaljic na qam a nia umaq a qinaciljai. 

In English: 
Our slate house looks like the skin of a pangolin.

Glossary: 
  1. matu: looks like
  2. qalijc: skin
  3. na: of
  4. qam: pangolin
  5. a: case marker for the nominative subject
  6. nia: our
  7. umaq a qinaciljai: slate house. the root for qinaciljai is "qaciljai" (stone). [q-in-aciljai] means something made of stone; -in- is the infix of a passive. 
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