Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 186: qemucel

nu kedri a temekel tua zaljum, qemucel. 

In English: 
If we drink little water, we will have constipation.

Glossary:
  1. nu: if, when
  2. kedri: little, small
  3. a: ligature? 
  4. temekel: drink, actor voice, t<em>ekel 
  5. tua (tua): oblique case marker for sepcific common noun
  6. zaljum: water
  7. qemucel: to be ill with constipation, actor voce, q<em>ucel . qucel-an means the illness constipation. 
Reading:

From Wei-chen Huang, 'A Study of Verbal Morphology in Puljetji Paiwan" (2012), p. 33. 

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