Gutob English

ask

Speaker: Komla Sisa

bamboo hook used for straw

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Tonkhodar Sisa

hypocrite

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

hypocritical

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[yet you.pl pig-obj rdpl~eat=obj neg=give=2pl] ‘you all have not given food to the pigs yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Bullock

Speaker: Komla Sisa

woman, married

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

kinds of big rat

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

kind of tree

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

slide, cause to

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

prayer

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

scatter (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[where=abl you.pl come=pst.i=pl] ‘where are you from’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

heads or tails

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

weeping

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Grow, increase

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

tiger

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

its = pl

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

host

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

ring worm affected person

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[pig here cop=npst] ‘the pig is here’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

horse

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

log

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

name

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

seed of sua corn

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

be cold

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

be cold

Speaker: Komla Sisa

lamp, small earthern

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Buttocks

Speaker: Komla Sisa

kick

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

very late

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

hive

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[3pron now=abl feel neg.cop] ‘he hasn’t felt it yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron yet rdpl~drunk neg.cop aux=pst.i] ‘he wasn’t drunk yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron man=pl=obj kill=pst.ii aux=npst] ‘she had killed the men’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both sleep-imp/mod=pl] ‘they two sleep’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both=obj cold rdpl~lv neg.cop] ‘they2 didn’t have a cold’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

he, she

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[yesterday see=pst.ii=gen man obj-I say=pst.ii] ‘The man who saw yesterday told me’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

gather

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

string together

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

little finger

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

napkin, small

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

be big be, make big

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

think in ones mind (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

pipe

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we see.exprssv.rdpl rdpl~lv=1pl neg.cop] ‘we are not looking at each other’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we always fish cook=npst=1pl] ‘we always cook fish’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we sleep=imp/mod=1pl] ‘we sleep’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Group leader

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Arrange to

Speaker: Komla Sisa

[I obj-3pron look-pst.ii=1=prog 3pron obj=I look=pst.ii=prog] ‘I am looking at her and she is looking at me’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I market=dir neg-go=pst.i=1 aux=pst.i] ‘I did not have to go to the market’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I more+time neg=wait=1] ‘I am no longer waiting’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I dem.prox work take=pst.i=nfin good lv=pst.ii=nfin work lv=pst.ii=1=prog] ‘I continued working on this problem’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I obj-you rdpl~see neg.cop] ‘I don’t see you’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I market=dir go=fut=1 pig rdpl~buy=purp] ‘I will go to the market to buy a pig’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I market=dir go=pst.i=1=prog pig rdpl~buy=purp] ‘I am going to the market to buy a pig’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you man=pl=obj kill=pst.ii=2] ‘you killed the men’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you drunk neg=lv=neg.tam=2] ‘you won’t be drunk’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you and I fall=pst.i=1pl neg.cop] ‘you+I weren’t falling’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you and I sleep neg.cop] ‘you+I didn’t sleep yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

person, another

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

throw, drop (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

off shoot

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[boy sleep=pst.i aux=npst=q] ‘is the boy sleeping?’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

suffer from foot sore (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

contract labor

spilled, be (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

one who is thin

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

thin paper

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[you.pl all person sleep=pst.i=2pl aux=npst] ‘y’all are sleeping’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

loft space, ceiling area

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

liquor

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Sunday

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Crook

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

all

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

illness, be ill

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

record speech

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

press by leg

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

tired person

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Carried, be (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

new

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

sister and daughter

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

male dancer

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

come! (calling)

Speaker: Komla Sisa

topsy-turvy

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[which person you=gen name rdpl~say neg.cop obj-I see=pl] ‘The man I did not tell your name to saw me’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

old (person)

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Dandruff

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Bastard

Speaker: Komla Sisa

sound from water

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Deep

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

talisman, amulet

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

was, had

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

slap, clap

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Castor plant

Speaker: Komla Sisa

snout of pig

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Castor kind

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Altercate

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa