Thursday, December 3, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 271: sala (さら皿)

aicu a sala tja papizuanan tua djamai. 

In English
We put vegetables in a plate. 

Glossary
  1. a-icu: this
  2. a: ligature (LIG)
  3. sala: plate or dish, loanword from Japanese さら皿. Synonyms include piyurpiyur or dunbuli (another loanword from Japaneseどんぶり or どん 丼, which means big bowl ). 
  4. tja: our, genitive (GEN) case marker. In Paiwan, the subject of a UV sentence is in GEN case.
  5. pa-pi-zua-nan: to be put there. pa- 'to cause to be'; pi 'to put in'; the root is zua 'there, that'. -an is abstract state nominalization, indicating location. 
  6. tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
  7. djamai: vegetables
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