Paiwan Every Day 375: kan // semankakanen

salialim ti kina ta semankakanen. 

In English: 

Mom is busy preparing food. 

Glossary: 

1. salialim: is busy, present contiuous. The root is salim 'busy'; the reduplication (RED) form is sali-ali-m. 
2. ti: subject case marker for specific person
3. kina: mom
4. ta: oblique (OBL) case marker
5. s<em>an-ka-kan-en: make or prepare food, actor voice (AV). san- 'construct, work on'; kakanen 'food' with the root kan. 

Reading: 

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary semankakanen. 

The dictionary has maqutjautjav as busy, and my mom kina naluku often uses isugasigasi, a loanword from Japanese いそがしい 忙しい. I choose salialim from web.klokah.tw.