selangeda aken tu palisi a venaqesing nu uri qemaljup.
In English:
I heard that it is a taboo to sneeze when going hunting.
Glossary:
- se-langeda: to hear something unintentionally or unexpectedly. se- the prefix indiactes 'occur suddenly or unexpectedly/unintentionally' (Huang, "A Study of Verbal Morphology in Puljetji Paiwan", p. 214).
- aken: I, 1st PERS (personl pronoun), singular
- tu: that, complementary.
- palisi: taboo
- a: ligature
- v<en>aqesing: sneeze, actor voice. the root is vaqesing 'to sneeze'. the function of <en> is the same as <em> but used with labial consonants.
- nu: if, when
- uri: will do somthing
- q<em>aljup: go hunting. the root is qaljup 'hunt'.
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