Saturday, February 6, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 336: picul // papupicul

masalu ta su papupicul tjanuamen. 

In English:
Thank you for encouraging us.

Glossary
  1. masalu: thank or believe. 
  2. ta: oblique (OBL) case marker
  3. su: your, 2nd person singular genitive (GEN)
  4. pa-pu-picul: to make to have power or encourage. pa- 'to cause to happen'; pu- 'to have'; the root is picul 'power'. 
  5. tjanuamen: towards us or to us. The root is amen 'we'.   
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