mawiji
West Makian edit
Etymology edit
Possibly spurious; this may simply be the 3rd person animate conjugation of wiji (“to be cold, to shiver”), in reference to malaria chills.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mawiji
Conjugation edit
| Conjugation of mawiji (stative verb) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | timawiji | mimawiji | amawiji | |
| 2nd person | nimawiji | fimawiji | ||
| 3rd person | inanimate | imawiji | dimawiji | |
| animate | mamawiji | |||
| imperative | —, mawiji | —, mawiji | ||
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics