Dictionary of the Favorlang Dialect of the Formosan Language, Tr. by W.H. Medhurst - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...(with an aspirate, not as/, ) the insects which eat out, and render hollow the bamboos. ', now; piada sisja, to day. Pi-/, pinia, papia, bia, bian, binia, inobian, to drive away the wild animals, such as hogs, and stags, who come and devour the fielda. Babia, the nouns. t, inobidan, to girdle. Pahied, pi. Jnajned, papahied, ipabida, ipahted &c. todo so. Babied. a girdle, Ba bied an aijan, the place fur the girdle Pigckarra, pi, pa, igcharra, pass. igchar ran, &c. sanie as pigchilla. Charra lattice work. pijcau, bent. Piqeyo, pinigeno, papigeno, to skim; gabigeno, pinabigeno, papabigeuo, ipabigenoa, ipabigeno, &c. to.do so. Pigchilht, pi, pa, igchilla, . pass. igchillan, &c. toputoue thing between two others, where it does not adhere, but where it has room. Pichcharra, ditto. Paigchilla, trans. nom. aigthilla, the doini, so. Chilla, lattice work. Pila, piuila. papila, ila, . dan, inila, inoilan, to hit, to touch. Paila. pinada, papad, & to touch. Thus people say, pila ja auho, the 1 have got into the basket. i. e. are taken, whenever there are fish therein. Aila. nom. a bitting. Pilo, pinilla, papilla, billa, billaan, binilla, inobiilaan, to cleave, to split. Pabilla, pinabilla, papabilla, ipabilla, &.C. ditto. Bal-illa, a cleaving. Billa, a cleft, f.om Malilla, anything to split.wiljv Ma-ababilla, a cleaver. or, inipior, inoipior, to leave bchind; to whom '? hiorran, biniorran. inobiorran. Pabior, pi, pa, ipabiorra, ipabior, inipabior, inoipabior, todo so. bior, a remainder, ib also used as a preposition. Piri, piniri, papiri, ...