Gutob English

bamboo hook used for straw

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Tonkhodar Sisa

Disagreeable, unwilling

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Bamboo hat

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

pollute

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

niece, husband’s sister’s daughter

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Gunpowder

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

smell

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

another

Speaker: Komla Sisa

woman, married

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

hold anothers head (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Another

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

hill road

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

forest

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Clan

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

hood of serpent

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Death rite performed on the 10thday

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

mutual

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

left

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

sorrow

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

here, this place, at, in

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[pig big neg=cop=pst.i=cncssv/causal I buy=pst.ii aux-pst.ii] ‘although the pig is not big, I bought it’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Father in law

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

toothache

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sift

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[woman=pl yet woman=pl=obj see=pst.ii neg=aux=pst.i=pl] ‘the women hadn’t seen the women yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Black color, to use

Speaker: Komla Sisa

make a hole (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

raw fruit

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

intestinal parasite

Speaker: Komla Sisa

whirlpool

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

insect species

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

they gave the news

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Banana

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Dog, female

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Cuckoo

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Father’s younger brother

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sharpen (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Curry, vegetable, anything eaten with rice

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

latrine

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Grain particle

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

[3pron and I sleep=pst.i=1pl] ‘he+I slept’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron neg.antic-sleep=pst.i aux=pst.i] ‘he wasn’t sleeping’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron obj-you tell=pst.ii aux=npst] ‘she has told you’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both neg=go.mod=pl] ‘they two won’t go’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both sleep=pst.i=pl aux=npst] ‘they two have slept’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

know, I

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Get, receive

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[yesterday obj-you see=pst.ii=gen man-obj I say=pst.ii=1] ‘I told the man who saw you yesterday’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

leader of group

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

sniff

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

small bit

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

remember (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

contractor

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Eyelid

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Fist

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Bald

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

summer

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[we yet obj-you.pl rdpl~see=1pl neg.cop] ‘we don’t see you two yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[we obj-you.pl yet rdpl~see neg.cop] ‘we don’t see you yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

soft, tender

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[I now market=dir go=1 neg.cop] ‘I am not going to market now’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I go=fut] ‘I will go’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

snap ones own fingers (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I=gen left direction foot neg=wash.water=1] ‘I don’t wash my left foot’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

own, from

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[I market=dir go=pst.i=nfin pig buy=pst.ii=nfin come=fut=1] ‘I went to the market, bought a pig and came back’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I still wash.hand=fut=1] ‘I will still wash myself’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you man=pl=obj rdpl~see=2 neg.cop] ‘you are looking at the men’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[when=indef/emph market=dir go=pst.i=mod pig buy] ‘when you go the market, buy a pig’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-I tell] ‘tell me! (said to two or more people)’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

office

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

trap (v)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

muslim

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you.pl both drunk neg=go.mod=2pl] ‘you two don’t want to go (home) drunk’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl all person yet pig rdpl~see neg.cop] ‘you all don’t see the pigs yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl all person rdpl~die=2pl neg.cop] ‘you all weren’t dying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl all person rdpl~fall=2pl neg.cop] ‘you all didn’t fall’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl=gen bow rdpl~give neg.cop] ‘didn’t give you the bow’ ‘doesn’t give your bow’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

stalk of lotus

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

ill, become

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

bale

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Glad

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

pluck flower, gather fruit from the tree (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Eagle, hawk, raven

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Complain

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Have something prepared by another person

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

tied, be (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

sister

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[dem.dist man rdpl~die neg.cop] ‘the man didn’t die’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Deficiency, want

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Cover

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

long

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

ladder

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

yet

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Drummer

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Anus

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Mother’s brother’s wife

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Birth

Speaker: Komla Sisa

mark

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

spread out

Speaker: Kamla Sisa