Friday, August 14, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 160: vulung

liaw a patarevan nua vulung i ta kacalisian. 

In English: 
Hundred-pace snake is meaningful for the indigenous people.

Glossary:
  1. liaw: many
  2. a: nominative phrase marker for a specific common noun
  3. patarevan: metaphor, meaning
  4. nua: of, genitive pronoun
  5. vulung: Hundred-pacer
  6. i: in or at, locative preposition
  7. ta (tua): oblique case marker for a specific common noun
  8. kacalisian: the root is "calisi" (hill). [ka-calisi-an] means people from the hills, that is indigenous peoples or used for  Paiwan. 
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