Monday, December 14, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 282: suqelam // semuqelam

semuqelam aravac a qiljiqilji a caucau. 

In English: 
Selfish people are quite a disgust.

Glossary
  1.  s<em>uqelam: cause others to feel hateful or distasteful or disgusting. The root is suqelam 'hate, dislike'. 
  2. aravac: very, quite
  3. a: subject case marker
  4. qilji-qilji: selfish. The root is qilji 'selfishness' in reduplication (RED) for stress. 
  5. a: ligature (LIG)
  6. caucau: people
Reading

This is purely personal. I do hate the selfish and the greedy. Then people always refer to these two as nature. Then I don't like such nature. 

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