|
V |
zhü
- o ta - {da
} |
‘wish you
bon voyage’ |
| |
{
o } |
‘ lit. go
away well, smoothly’ |
| |
|
|
| VI |
zhü
-o ama/omoe |
‘are (you)
well ?’ |
| |
(to
someone who hasbeen |
away for
some time) |
| |
|
|
| VIII |
oramüi
peno ni |
{ saoli
pi - lo } |
| |
|
{ shühra
kapisü so
- lo } |
| |
|
|
| |
‘may
god |
{ be with
you ! }’ |
| |
|
{ bless
you ? } |
| |
|
|
| |
at the time
of leave-taking |
or to ailing
persons. |
| |
|
|
|
VIII |
ni
kazhü-sü so - |
{ o
} |
| |
|
{ da
} |
| |
|
|
| |
‘may
you have good |
luck/fortune
!’ |
| |
|
|
| IX |
ni
covo -ama |
‘are you
happy ?’ |
| |
ni ole
mazhi ho covoe |
‘are you
sad or happy ?’ |
| |
|
|
| X |
(ni)
adi - müi - koe |
‘which village
do (you) belong to ?’ |
| |
lit.
|
‘(you) (sg.)
are) which village man ?’ |
| |
|
|
| XI
|
cani
moe |
‘does not
matter’ |
| |
|
|
| XII
|
omüi
zhü - da |
‘have sweet
dreams o.k. ?’ |
|
A body of native opinion believes that the idea is borrowed rather
than genuinely native.
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TEXT
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The following is the text of a folktale in phonemic transcription
with morpheme-to-morpheme glossing which is followed by a free
translation. The parenthesized numbers below the morpheme glosses
refer to the section in the grammar in which the Mao forms have
been elucidated.
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Abbreviations used and their expansions :
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| adj. |
adjectivizer |
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| adv. |
adverbializer |
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| alla. |
allative case marker |
| |
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| caus. |
causative marker |
| |
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| cmpl. |
completive mod marker |
| |
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| cnc. |
concessive suffix |
| |
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| cnd. |
conditional mood marker |
| |
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| cnj. |
conjunctive participializer |
| |
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| cnt. |
continuous partipializer |
| |
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| cntr. |
particle of contrast |
| |
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| det. |
deitic base |
| |
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| def. |
definite mood marker |
| |
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| DO. |
direct object |
| |
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| emph. |
emphatic marker |
| |
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| eqsnt. |
equational sentence marker |
| |
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| erg. |
ergative marker |
| |
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| fut. |
future tense marker |
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| GN. |
gender-number marker |
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| gen. |
genitive marker |
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| ger. |
gerundializer |
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| idphn. |
ideophone |
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| ind. |
individuating clitic |
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