Paiwan Every Day 538: au / qau

au / qau: and so, well now (introduces story or phrase) (Ferrell, p. 60). 

qau is still used with the same meaning in southern Paiwan, while according to ILRDF, in northern dialects, sa rather than qau is more common for the meaning 'then, and', and qau is used for its second menaing 'bamboo'. Southern Paiwan also uses qau for bamboo. 

• qau: then, and...

gemiring a likuljaw sa pasamintjus ti kedrikedri a vavayan, qau kiqilja ma ta tapatapaw. 

Free translation: 

Clouded-leopard roars, then the little girl got scared, and look, she runs to hide in the hut. 

• qau: bamboo

liaw sa qau imaza. 

Free translation: 

There is a lot of bamboos here. 

Word gloss: 

1. g<em>iring: bark, roar at, AV. The root is giring. 
2. a: subject case marker
3. likuljaw: clouded-leppard
4. sa: and, then
5. pa-sa-mintjus: to get scared or frightened. The root is mintjus 'scare, frighten'. 
6. ti: subject case marker for people
7. kedri-kedri: little, very young. The root is kedri 'small, young' in RED.
8. a: LIG
9. vavayan: girl, woman
10. qau: and, then
11. ki-qilja: to get or obtain to hide. The root is qilja 'hide'. 
12. ma: to, towards? 
13. ta: OBL
14. tapa-tapaw: hut, house. The root is tapaw 'house' in RED.  
15. liaw: many, a lot of
16. sa: subject case marker for plural form? It can only be understood syntactically this way, but I've never read elsewhere that a subject case marker has a form plural nouns in Paiwan? Normally, we will say 'a' referring to both singular and plural. 
17. qau: bamboo
18. i-maza: here. i 'LOC'; maza 'here'. 

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From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982), ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary qau, and klokah likuljaw kata aljak a vavayan 'Clouded-leopard and A Little Girl'.