| 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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