Saturday, November 7, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 245: qadav // kinaqadavan

pida a su kinaqadavan?

In English: 
How much do you earn every day? (What's your daily wage?)

Glossary: 
  1. pida: how much, how many. 
  2. a: subject case marker
  3. su: your, 2nd person singular genitive (GEN)
  4. k<in>a-qadav-an: daily wage or earning. The root is qadaw or qadav 'day'. 
Reading:

From the class of sinsi idis. 

kinaqadavan, as I learn from different contexts so far, have two other meanings: 
These three meanings seem to share a common property of 'day' and are used by different variations of different locations. But exactly why it is the case remains to be answered and I believe it can be answered by the science of linguistics. 

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