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

 

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