haye |
‘distance of one finger’ |
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hanye |
‘distance of two fingers’ |
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hahi he |
‘distance of three fingers’ |
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hape |
‘distance of four fingers’ |
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nae
|
‘distance of all five fingers kept together’ |
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The
above measurements are used to measure objects that are smaller in
size. |
hixehe
|
‘fist with alongated thumb’ |
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lad
goye |
‘span (with forefinger)’ |
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laso goye |
‘span (with middle finger)’ |
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ladu tuye |
‘distance between the tip of the middle
fingerand the elbow’ |
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alabuye |
‘distance between the shoulder and the tip
of the middle finger’ |
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lyee |
‘distance between the tips of two hands including
chest’ |
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lyee
kupahe |
‘chest and alabuye’ |
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Different
baskets that are used as measures to measure foodgrains, etc. |
1 kice |
- |
about ½ kg. (rice) |
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2 kice |
- |
1 lya |
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2 lya
|
- |
1 paro yag
/ pro yagi |
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2 paro yag |
- |
1 paipaca |
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2 paipaca |
- |
1 entyagi (entiyagi
) |
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2 entyagi |
- |
1 gidapata |
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Time
Unit |
api
mlo
|
‘time needed for cooking rice
(about half an hour)’ |
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konci |
‘3½ hours (dawn) |
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alo |
‘10 hours (one day)’ |
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plo |
‘28 days (lunar month)’ |
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aya |
‘one year’ |
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IV.
Elements that occur with nouns, verbs, etc., as suffixes, post positions,
particles, etc. |
agi
|
‘sociative marker’ |
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ata |
‘plural noun’ |
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i |
‘pronoun (indicates remoteness)’ |
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e |
‘adjective marker in numeral’ |
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o |
‘locative case marker’ |
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ka |
‘(i) added to pronouns to form
deictic pronouns, |
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(ii) genitive case marker |
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(iii) added to verb to indicate
that the action is per formed to check something’ |
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ki |
‘added to verb to indicate
the action is performed as a demonstration’ |
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kne |
‘added to form permissive construction
(3rd person)’ |
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k |
(i) ablative case marker added
to locative noun’ |
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(ii) subject case sign for existential
verb’ |
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