Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 578: bus // benusbus

vaik a benusbus ta pukamayan timadju. 

Free translation
He went to spray pesticide in his mango garden. 

Word gloss:
  1. vaik: go to
  2. a: LIG
  3. b<en>us-bus: to spray, to drizzle, AV. The root is bus or busbus 'light drizzle of rain' (Ferrell, p. 66). 
  4. ta: OBL
  5. pu-kamay(a)-an: mango garden. pu- 'to get or obtain'; the root is kamaya 'mango' loanword form Minnan; -an 'location'. 
  6. ti-madju: he, 3rd P SIN NOM
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From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary benusbus

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