Friday, October 9, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 216: tutu

aicu a tutu nua kina maru sicevudanga nua nasi na qunuqunu. 

In English: 
These breasts of a mother are like the spring of life of an infant. 

Glossary: 
  1. aicu: this, these
  2. a: ligature
  3. tutu: breasts
  4. nua: of, genitive case marker
  5. kina: mother
  6. maru: is like
  7. si-cevud-anga: spring or flow out of; the root is cevud 'flow out of, spring'.
  8. nua: of, genitive case marker
  9. nasi: life
  10. na: of, genitive case marker
  11. qunuqunu: infant or baby, reduplication of qunu. another word is lumamad.
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