Paiwan Every Day 582: daqay // madaqay

madaqay a napadjele itjen tua rusuku, izua tjasikipaqulja tucu a vengin. 

Free translation: 

How fortunate that we have prepared candles, therefore we have some light tonight. 

Word gloss: 

1. ma-daqay: it is good (Ferrell, p. 67)
2. a: LIG
3. na-pa-djele: to have prepared. The root is djele 'prepare'. 
4. itjen: we, 1st person PL INCL
5. tua: OBL
6. rusuku: candles, loanword from Japanese. 
7. izua: there is
8. tja-si-ki-paqulja: we can get light. The root is paqulja 'to light up'. 
9. tuch a vengin: tonight

Voice file: 

From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF madaqai. 

The voice file on ILRDF makes a mistake at the beginning. The elder is clearly reading the poorly written text and misled to start the sentence very awkwardly. In another exmaple of daqai, his reading is good.