Gutob English

furthermore

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

moonlit night

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Decision

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

water trough for cattle

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

unmarried young man

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

kind of mouse

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

kinds of drum

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

wild cat

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

forest

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Bind, bundle (vb.)

Speaker: Komla Sisa

saliva spit

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

put, keep, fill (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

slough of snake

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

security money

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

regret

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

smoke

Speaker: Komla Sisa

assembled in one place

Speaker: Komla Sisa

sweep with hard broom (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

leech

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[pig obj-we both=obj see=pst.ii aux=fut] ‘the pigs see us two’ = will have

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[pig obj-I yet bite=pst.ii neg=aux] ‘the pigs will not have seen me yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[pig obj-I bite=pst.ii aux=pst.i] ‘the pigs had bitten me’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

died

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

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

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Go for fighting (vb)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

lecturer

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Escape (vb)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

spy

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[3pron=pl both rdpl~die=pl neg.cop] ‘they two aren’t dying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both die-fut=pl] ‘they two will die’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both drunk rdpl~lv=pl neg.cop] ‘they2 haven’t been drunk’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl both sleep=pl neg.cop] ‘they two don’t sleep’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl drunk rdpl~lv=pl neg.cop] ‘they weren’t drunk’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

small measuring basket

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

load something up

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Dancing ground

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

I mixed

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

small earthen pot

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Fade

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Aunty (mother’s elder sister)

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

sister, elder

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Castrated pig

Speaker: Komla Sisa

finger, middle

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Alternate

Speaker: Komla Sisa

ring finger

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[we pig=obj rdpl~kill=1pl neg.cop] ‘we have not killed the pigs’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

ourselves, by

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

liar (female)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Group leader

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[I neg=die=emph/neg.tam=1] ‘I don’t die’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I obj-you.pl=pl=obj all person-obj tell=pst.ii=1 aux=fut] ‘I will have told you all’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I go=pst.i=1 and I=gen bow obj-3pron give=pst.ii=1] ‘I went and gave him my bow’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I sleep=pst.i aux=fut=1] ‘I will have slept’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I see=pst.ii=1 cncssv/causal obj=you rdpl~say neg.cop=1] ‘although I saw (you), I did not tell you’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I=gen=loc three-clssfr pig cop=npst] ‘I have three pigs’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you man=pl=obj kill=2 neg.cop] ‘you didn’t kill the men’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you and I rdpl~drunk neg.cop] ‘you+I aren’t drunk’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you I cry=1pl neg.cop aux=pst.i] ‘you+I weren’t crying’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you which man=obj see=pst.i=2 obj-3pron I story tell=pst.ii ben=pst.ii=1] ‘You saw the man who I told the story to’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-I hungry=pst.i=prog] ‘I’m hungry’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

hook

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Divorce(d)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

illegal man

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

niece, wife’s sister’s daughter

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

trouble, annoyance, hardship

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[boy sleep=pst.i aux=npst] ‘yes, the boy was sleeping’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

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

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

horizontal pole on which wet clothes are hung for drying

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[you.pl yet obj=3pron rdpl~give rdpl~give=2pl neg.cop] ‘you didn’t give it to her yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl all person die=pst.i go=fut=2pl] ‘you all will have died’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Cheroot

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Bird

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

insurance

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Have Cold

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Drown one another (vb)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Charmed

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Comb (v.)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Bean species

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

silent keep

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Daily

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

cockroach

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Cause to hold

Speaker: Komla Sisa

heat in fire

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Faggot

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

cloudy

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

spade, hoe

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

make another brown (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

orphanage

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Cane

Speaker: Komla Sisa

one who has died being drowned, a drowned person

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Attendance

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[run:imp] ‘run! (said to two or more people)’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

worm, glow

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

indigestive

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

house lizard

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

tea

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

fourth

Speaker: Komla Sisa

wash hair

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

with a flat nose

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

spread

Speaker: Kamla Sisa