nakuya a semanberaq itjen tua nasemalimsim a caucau.
Free translation:
It is bad to look down on poor people.
Word gloss:
- na-kuya: bad. The root is kuya 'bad, ill'.
- a: subject case marker
- s<em>an-beraq: to make fun of or to belittle or to look down upon, AV. san- 'to construct; work on'; -em- 'actor voice marker'; the root is beraq 'make fun of'.
- itjen: we, 1st person PL NOM INCL
- tua: OBL
- nasemalimsim: poor
- a: LIG
- caucau: people
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary semanberaq.
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