Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 451: kuda // namakuda

namakuda a su liqu? 

Free translation: 
What's wrong with your neck? 

Word gloss:
  1. na-ma-kuda: what happend with or what's wrong with AV. na- 'PRF'; ma- 'in the condition of'; the root is kuda 'rule, work, what'. 
  2. a: subject case marker
  3. su: your, 2nd person singular GEN
  4. liqu: neck. I was looking for throat, it is tjigeraw or driaqulan in southern Paiwan. But in norther Paiwan, liqu is used to also mean throat.
Voice file: 

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary namakuda. 

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