Friday, August 13, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 524: -angata

-angata: truly, certainly, geniunely (Ferrell, p. 58)

caucauangata
sanguaqangata a tja papa a kacalisiyan. 

Free translation:
It's really a person! 
Indigenous cuisine is really tasty. 

Word gloss:
  1. caucau-angata: really human. caucau 'people, human'; -angata 'really'. 
  2. sanguaq-angata: really tasty. sa-nguaq 'tasty'; the root is nguaq 'good, blessed, well'. 
  3. a: subject case marker
  4. tja: our, 1st person plural GEN, proclitic but I write it separately. 
  5. papa: cooking, cuisine
  6. a: LIG
  7. ka-calisi-(y)an: indigenous
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From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and kakanen a kinacalisiyan 'Indigenous Food'.

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