anema su kudain a kikadudu tjai tja'ma?
Free translation:
What are you doing, pissing off our dad like that?
Word gloss:
- a-nema: what
- su: your, 2nd person SIN GEN
- kuda-in: thing done. The root is kuda 'what, rule, work'; -in 'perfecive marker; action already begun or accomplished; object or product of past action'(Ferrell, p. 17).
- a: LIG
- ki-ka-dudu: to piss off, to anger. ki- 'get, obtain'; ka- 'inchoative marker'; the root is dudu 'anger'.
- tjai: OBL, towards someone, in front of direction.
- tja-(k)/'(a)ma: our father. tja- 'our, 1st peron PL GEN INCL'; the root is kama or 'ama 'father, dad'.
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982) and ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary kikadudu.
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