Thursday, March 11, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 369: kan // pakan

kakudan a pakan tua tja pinakasengseng a caucau. 

In English: 
It is customary to feed people who work for us. 

Glossary:
  1. ka-kuda-(a)n: custom, rule. The root is kuda 'work, rule, what'. 
  2. a: subject case marker
  3. pa-kan: to make sb. eat or to feed. pa- 'to cause to be'; the root is kan 'eat'. 
  4. tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
  5. tja: our, 1st person plural genitive (GEN), used as subject of a undergoer voice (UV) verb
  6. p<in>aka-sengseng: work, UV. paka- 'to cause to go'; the root is sengseng 'work, make'.
  7. a: ligature (LIG)
  8. caucau: people. pinakasengseng a caucau 'worker'. 
Reading

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary pakan

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