Gutob English

offer in alter

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Cloud smoke on the hills

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Faith

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

slide, cause to

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

salivate

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

foster

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

terrible

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Flea

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Drown another (vb)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sister! (addressed by another sister)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[tiger=obj hit/kill aux=pst.ii=pl] ‘the tiger was killed’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

second eldest brother

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

tooth

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

toothless

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Cat

Speaker: Komla Sisa

rinse

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

round

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Clerk

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Dog

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

one who knows, a school student

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Morning gruel

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Defecate (shit)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[woman pig=obj neg=kill] ‘the woman won’t kill the pig’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[woman laugh neg.cop] ‘the woman is not laughing’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

black

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Extend, spread to

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

musk melon

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

turtle

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[man die=fut] ‘the man will die’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[man branch=obj rdpl~break neg.cop] ‘the man was not breaking the branch’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron neg-go.mod] ‘he doesn’t go’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron neg-die=pst.i] ‘he isn’t dying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both yet cry=pl neg.cop] ‘they two didn’t cry yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl go=pst.i=pl] ‘they went’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

little finger

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Get, receive

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

[yesterday] ‘yesterday’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

wash nose

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[little child] ‘little girl’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Chief’s wife

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Big axe

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

temple big

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

wear a turban (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[we see.exprssv.rdpl lv-mod-1pl] ‘we saw each other’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[we pig=obj see=pst.ii aux=fut=1pl] ‘we two will have seen the pigs’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we go=pst.i=1pl aux=pst.i] ‘we had gone’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we sleep=1pl neg.cop aux=pst.i] ‘we weren’t sleeping’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we pig=obj yet see=pst.ii neg-aux=1pl] ‘we two will not have seen the pigs yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we fall=pst.i neg.cop=1pl] ‘we have not fallen down’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

honest

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

yoke

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[I now=abl cry=1 neg.cop] ‘I am not crying yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I go=fut] ‘I will go’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I obj-you neg-know=1] ‘I don’t know you’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I obj-you see=pst.ii=1 aux=pst.i] ‘I had seen you’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I child=gen foot wash.water=1] ‘I washed the baby’s foot’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I=gen two=clssfr house] ‘my two houses’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

own, from

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[I self see=npst=1] ‘I will look at myself’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

nail, to scratch by

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you yet drunk neg.cop] ‘you aren’t drunk yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

name

Speaker: Komla Sisa

dusk

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-we market=dir go=obj give.imp=pl] ‘let us go to the market’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

need

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

teach (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sweet kind

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

inconvenient, be

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

invert, reverse

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[you.pl where cop=npst] ‘where are you?’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you.pl all person neg=cry=neg.tam=pl] ‘you all don’t cry’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Bird

Speaker: Komla Sisa

cutting board

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

stomach

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

first child

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Cast angry looks (vb.)

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Disease

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

straw bundle

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sindi tree

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

tighten (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Eater

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

bird species (lit. climbing in trees bird)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

stump of tree

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

husband’s elder brother

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Have another’s feet washed

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

set a fire

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

light (n.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[dem.dist man neg-eat] ‘the man will not eat’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

let us go brother (male speaking to male)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

he goat

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

remove lid

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Goose

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

heel

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Comet

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

sit down

Speaker: Komla Sisa

leech

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Castor kind

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

instrument

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Ant

Speaker: Komla Sisa

thief

Speaker: Kamla Sisa