Gutob English

stingy

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Bend (itr. vb.)

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Change

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

ill

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

unmarried young man

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

kind of mouse

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

tease, vex

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

put

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

male buffalo

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

White Hair

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

sink (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Drown another (vb)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Barber

Speaker: Komla Sisa

two and half days

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Bow (weapon)

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Traditional Greeting to Sister

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Dislike, disregard

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

tie a knot

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

die

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Dumb woman

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

yes

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Gruel made of rice and pulse

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Morning gruel

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[woman=pl speak=pl neg.cop] ‘the woman are not speaking to each other’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Store Corn

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Door

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

spread

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

how much, how many, how, as much as, as many as, some

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

intestinal parasite

Speaker: Komla Sisa

quarrel (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

saffron

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Escape (vb)

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

Crocodile

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

[3pron and I neg=die=emph/neg.tam=1pl] ‘he+I won’t die’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

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

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron and I sleep=pst.i=1pl aux=npst] ‘he+I are sleeping’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl now=abl both drunk rdpl~lv=pl neg.cop] ‘they two won’t be drunk yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[3pron=pl yet go=pl neg.cop] ‘they didn’t go yet’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

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

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Chicken pox

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

meaningless talk

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

hospital

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Artiste

Speaker: Komla Sisa

napkin, small

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

small plant

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Dragon fly

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

neighboring person

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

summer

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

crying

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[we never=emph/indef fish neg=cook=1pl] ‘we never cook fish’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[we obj=you.pl rdpl~see=1pl aux=pst.i] ‘we were looking at you’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

treatment, make better

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Mother’s elder sister, stepmother

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

[I pig=obj see=pst.ii=1=prog] ‘I see the pig’

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

[I obj-3pron=pl=obj fear=1 neg.cop] ‘I will not be scared of them’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I obj-you tomorrow neg-see=1] ‘I won’t see you tomorrow’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I palm.wine neg-drink=1] ‘I don’t drink palm wine’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[I hand=pl neg=wash.water=1] ‘I will not wash my hands’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-3pron cold rdpl~lv neg.cop] ‘he hasn’t had a cold’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-we cold rdpl~lv neg.cop] ‘we didn’t have a cold’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[obj-I all person rdpl~see=2pl neg.cop] ‘you all don’t see me’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

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

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

slow

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

niece, wife’s sister’s daughter

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

make dark (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

eighty

Speaker: Komla Sisa

fan

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Apparel

Speaker: Komla Sisa

wash clothes

Speaker: Komla Sisa

[you.pl both rdpl~die=2pl neg.cop] ‘you two didn’t die’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

[you.pl obj-we push=2pl aux=pst.i] ‘you were pushing us’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

froth

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

Broken pot

Speaker: Komla Sisa

cutting board

Example: Photo by Opino Gomango

Speaker: Bondu Kirsani

police

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

old, be (vb.)

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

widow

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

husband

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

Credit

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

head band, a thick bladed grass

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

wear flowers (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Catch

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

hundred

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

uneven (land)

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

[Sonja where rdpl~cop cop=pst.i] ‘where was Sonja living?’

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

string of wooden beads

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

prepare

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

new

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

oil made from earth

Speaker: Kamla Sisa

I did that

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

overflow boiling

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

one who has died being drowned, a drowned person

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Drown to

Speaker: Radha Kirsani

nevertheless

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

Bud to (vb.)

Speaker: Tonkodhar Sisa

Castor kind

Speaker: Komla Sisa

Clever girl

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

basket

Speaker: Komla Sisa

tong

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa

limestone leaf

Speaker: Tonkhodhar Sisa